USMD Hospital at Arlington in Texas has appointed three new leaders following the retirement of its CEO. Kathy Early, MSN, retired after serving as CEO and chief nursing officer, according to a Nov. 2 Facebook post from the hospital. USMD…
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Mirum Pharmaceuticals has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Bluejay Therapeutics — a deal that, if finalized, would add brelovitug, a phase 3-stage monoclonal antibody for chronic hepatitis delta virus, to its rare liver disease therapy pipeline. The $620 million…
UC San Diego Health has appointed neurosurgeon Alexander Khalessi, MD, as chief innovation officer and interim assistant vice chancellor for Health Sciences Innovation and AI. In the dual role, Dr. Khalessi will guide the health system’s innovation strategy and oversee…
York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health has appointed Orie Chambers as vice president for the health system and president of WellSpan Ephrata (Pa.) Community Hospital, effective Nov. 30. In this role, Mr. Chambers will oversee operations at the 141-bed community hospital and…
A Michigan man who received a kidney transplant died last December after contracting rabies from an organ donor who also died from the disease, the CDC said in a Dec. 4 report. Four notes: 1. In December 2024, a Michigan…
UCI Health will open its new seven-story, 144-bed, all-electric acute care hospital — UCI Health Irvine — on Dec. 10, according to the Los Angeles Times. The facility will be the academic health system’s sixth hospital and complete its medical…
Healthcare has the most AI agents in the scaling phase of any industry besides technology and media and communications, McKinsey & Co. reported. Here are the most common agentic AI business functions in healthcare (along with the number of respondents…
Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine said its capacity command center, M2C2, achieved six measurable efficiency gains in its first two years of operation, according to a Dec. 5 news release. M2C2 cost $2.1 million to build and $1.5 million annually to…
Healthcare IT workers can make six-figure salaries — no medical degree required. Here are the top college degrees for a career in health IT (along with median annual pay), according to an Investopedia data analysis published Dec. 6: 1. Bioinformatics/computational…
A social worker who was stabbed Dec. 4 at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center died two days later, according to the San Francisco Police Department. Police said officers responded around 1:30 p.m. Dec. 4, when an adult male suspect…