Patients at Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health are linking their medical records to ChatGPT at a rapidly accelerating pace, and the health system is footing part of the bill for a connection it never turned on. The number of patients at…
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Banner Health’s Sterling (Colo.) Regional MedCenter named Jason Thyne CEO, effective Sept. 27. Mr. Thyne most recently served as hospital COO, according to an Oct. 5 news release from Phoenix-based Banner Health. He joined Sterling Regional MedCenter in 2022 as…
Outpatient volumes are projected to grow 20% over the next decade, compared with 7% growth in inpatient discharges. That shift is changing how health systems plan their facilities including where to invest, how to connect outpatient sites and how to…
Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare, its foundation, CEO Prem Reddy, MD, and several executives have sued National Nurses United and its affiliate, the California Nurses Association, alleging harassment, defamation and invasion of privacy, according to a complaint filed Oct. 5 in…
Sister Margaret Ann Hardner, who spent 22 years as CEO of what is now AHN St. Vincent Hospital in Erie, Pa., died Oct. 3 at age 95, the Erie Times-News reported Oct. 6. Ms. Hardner, a member of the Sisters…
Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has cut its EHR count from 19 to nine over the past 24 months as it moves toward a single Epic instance by the end of fiscal 2030, CFO Michael Browning said during the system’s fiscal 2026…
Massachusetts is the healthiest state in the nation for women and children for the second consecutive year, while Louisiana again ranks last, according to the United Health Foundation’s “2026 America’s Health Rankings Health of Women and Children Report” published Oct.…
The healthcare supply chain has entered a new era of sustained uncertainty. Geopolitical instability, tariffs, raw material shortages, cybersecurity threats and pharmaceutical shortfalls have made volatility a permanent feature of the operating environment. Community hospitals feel this pressure most acutely.…
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Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, which operates 189 hospitals and about 2,600 ambulatory sites in 19 states and the United Kingdom, has named new CEOs at six of its hospitals since Sept. 1. Here are the moves: 1. Sean Patterson is…
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…