Democrats on the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs committees are demanding that the Department of Veterans Affairs explain a contract modification that raised the ceiling on its Oracle Health EHR deal by an amount the agency redacted in contracting documents.…
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As AI moves deeper into clinical care and back-office operations, a growing number of hospitals and health systems have created a C-suite role to oversee it. Becker’s list of organizations with dedicated AI leadership now includes more than 20, from…
Microsoft’s offer of free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates for U.S. rural hospitals expires Oct. 13, ending a one-year benefit designed to give hospitals more time to transition away from the operating system. The offer provides rural hospitals with free…
For years, the dominant model for health system technology relationships followed a predictable arc. A vendor sold a product, supported an implementation, and largely exited. Whether the tool delivered on its original promise became the health system’s problem to work…
For the past few years, the question of who would eventually lead Epic after its founder seemed to have a likely answer. Sumit Rana, the Verona, Wis.-based EHR vendor’s president and a developer who joined the company in 1998, was…
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Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine is teaming up with OpenEvidence, a popular AI-powered clinical reference app, to redesign how physicians are trained and how evidence reaches the bedside. OpenEvidence is one of the fastest-growing tools in American medicine, with more than…
Morris (Ill.) Hospital & Healthcare Centers has named Timothy Ajayi CFO, succeeding Michael Lawrence, who is retiring after more than six years in the role. Mr. Ajayi joins the hospital from Bristol Hospital and Health Care Group, a 154-bed integrated…
After a year of tightening and optimizing, health system leaders are choosing words for 2027 that point in a different direction. “Efficiency” was the word that defined how health system CEOs talked about their organizational strategy in 2026, surfacing in…
Four House lawmakers, Reps. Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa., Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., Tracey Mann, R-Kan., and Lois Frankel, D-Fla., have introduced bipartisan legislation that would pause HRSA’s 340B rebate model pilot. Here are six things to know: