An FDA advisory panel declined to endorse the Ventura interatrial shunt system, a heart failure device developed by V-Wave, a Johnson & Johnson company, according to a Dec. 5 TCTMD report. Panel members cited a lack of demonstrated benefit and…
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President Donald Trump wrote in a Dec. 8 Truth Social post that he plans to issue an executive order on artificial intelligence this week. The executive order would establish a single, national artificial intelligence standard for the U.S. “I will…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says China is better positioned to deploy AI capacity than the U.S., noting how quickly it constructs healthcare facilities. “If you want to build a data center here in the United States, from breaking ground to…
Richard Scheinblum was appointed president and CEO of Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, N.H., effective in February, according to a Dec. 9 hospital news release shared with Becker’s. Mr. Scheinblum is a veteran of Monadnock Community Hospital, currently serving as…
Cincinnati Children’s will launch a dedicated helicopter transport service in February to improve access for critically ill pediatric patients. The organization will partner with Denver-based Air Methods, which owns and operates medical transport helicopters nationwide, to provide the aircraft and…
Ask a Revenue Cycle Leader is a new series featuring insights from health system and hospital revenue cycle executives nationwide. Becker’s poses questions on the most pressing issues in healthcare finance — from payer relations and automation to workforce and…
Pfizer has entered into a global collaboration and license agreement with YaoPharma for the development, manufacturing and commercialization of YP05002, a small-molecule GLP-1 receptor agonist currently in phase 1 development for chronic weight management. YaoPharma, a subsidiary of Shanghai Fosun…
Gerald “Jerry” Staley has been named CHRO of Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health, according to a Dec. 5 LinkedIn post. Prior to his new role, Mr. Staley served as director of human resources for Cook County, Ill., according to his LinkedIn…
Health systems can use AI to adopt AI. That’s according to Oracle, which helps healthcare organizations launch the technology with strong AI prompts. “In a recent project at a healthcare system in North America, the client team identified testing scenarios,…
The FDA has qualified the first AI-based drug development tool to support metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis clinical trials. The cloud-based tool, AI-Based Histologic Measurement of NASH (AIM-NASH), is designed to assist pathologists in assessing liver biopsy images, according to a Dec.…