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Flu season is off to an early start, with weekly lab-confirmed flu hospitalizations nearly tripling between early September and early October, according to CDC data.  Hospitals reported 3,334 flu admissions in the week ending Oct. 3. That’s up from 2,572…

Meadowbrook, Pa.-based Redeemer Health’s credit rating was downgraded to “Caa3” from “B1” on Oct. 9 after the system missed scheduled debt service payments. Moody’s tied the downgrade to the missed payments and the acceleration of about $87 million in obligations…

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health has named Wayman Cummings vice president and chief security and infrastructure officer. He continues to serve as chief information security officer while also overseeing the health system’s technology infrastructure functions. “The future of security and technology…

Health systems are not running out of AI products to consider. The harder problem is deciding which ones warrant the attention and in what order. The market for AI tools has outpaced the governance structures most organizations built to assess…

Members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association have postponed a planned open-ended strike at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital, part of Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham, as they prepare to vote on the hospital’s final contract offer, according to statements both…

Epic has spent the past several years pulling in many of the country’s largest health systems, a disproportionate share of them leaving Oracle Health. Yet a group of big U.S. health systems run Oracle Health as their primary EHR. Investor-owned…

Boston Scientific has sued Atraverse Medical, a company Johnson & Johnson acquired earlier this year, alleging its Hotwire transseptal access device infringes a newly issued patent. It is the second patent suit between the companies over the device, according to…

Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., one of the authors of the No Surprises Act, is introducing legislation that would replace the law’s arbitration process with a payment benchmark based on the median in-network rate. The Lower Premiums, Faster Payments Act…

The FDA has approved Teva Pharmaceuticals’ Weltruza (olanzapine) for extended-release injectable suspension to treat schizophrenia in adults. Weltruza is the first and only once-monthly subcutaneous long-acting injectable formulation of olanzapine, according to an Oct. 9 news release. The treatment requires…

Daisy Rodriguez, MSN, RN, is no longer CEO and chief nursing officer of Waukegan, Ill.-based Vista Health System, effective Oct. 6, she said in a message to Becker’s. Kevin Spiegel, senior vice president of Vista’s owner, American Healthcare Systems, is…