The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against Advocate Aurora Health, alleging the system unlawfully fired a nurse in 2021 over its COVID-19 vaccine policy. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern…
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Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare–GoHealth Urgent Care has opened a new center in Killingly, Conn., expanding access to same-day care in the region. The facility is part of a 39-location urgent care network serving more than 500,000 patients annually across Connecticut, according…
The FDA has approved Novo Nordisk’s pill version of Wegovy, making it the first oral GLP-1 receptor agonist therapy cleared for chronic weight management. The once-daily 25-milligram oral semaglutide is indicated to reduce excess body weight, maintain long-term weight loss…
U.S. healthcare spending is on a path that has finance leaders increasingly uneasy. With national health expenditures projected to reach $8.6 trillion by 2033 — and consume more than 20% of the nation’s GDP — health system leaders say the…
More than 141,000 Arizona residents will receive letters this week notifying them that their medical debt has been relieved. So far, Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs’ administration and nonprofit Undue Medical Debt have eliminated $642 million in medical debt for 485,000…
Artificial intelligence has quickly become a fixture in healthcare conversations, particularly around clinical documentation, workforce efficiency and patient safety. But for James Dover, president and CEO of Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Health, the technology’s most underexplored opportunity may be at…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic performs among the most virtually planned surgeries in the world through its development of 3D modeling. The Anatomic Modeling Unit at Jacksonville-based Mayo Clinic in Florida uses 3D printing to support physician preparation in more than…
Health system CEOs across the U.S. launched and expanded efforts in 2025 to improve access to care, enhance patient and provider experience and reduce costs. Becker’s connected with five health system CEOs to learn how they plan to double down…
Looking ahead to 2026, Boston-based Athenahealth is preparing to roll out a reimagined EHR experience centered on AI, with a stated goal of reducing clinician and staff burden while improving revenue cycle performance beyond industry benchmarks. The company said it…
The University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine in Aurora has developed an AI-powered assistant to help radiologists review EHRs more efficiently. The tool, called AIDA, extracts and summarizes relevant EHR data to reduce the time radiologists spend searching for…