The Drug Enforcement Administration is issuing its first federal registrations to state-licensed medical marijuana dispensaries, the Justice Department announced Oct. 30. The initial registrations cover more than 900 dispensaries in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.…
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Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare has named Felix Segre, BSN, director of revenue cycle optimization and innovation, bringing the executive aboard from Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System. In his new enterprise role, Mr. Segre will oversee systemwide improvements in hospital and professional…
Stan Korducki plans to retire Dec. 31 as president of Bowling Green, Ohio-based Wood County Hospital after 30 years of leadership. Tom Bialorucki, the hospital’s COO, CIO and chief information security officer, will succeed him, effective Jan. 1, according to…
Ambulatory cardiac monitoring (ACM)—including Holter, event, and mobile cardiac telemetry monitors—is commonly used by cardiologists to diagnose critical arrhythmias remotely. For high-volume health systems like CaroMont Heart and Vascular, traditional ACM workflows often become operational “black holes.” Managing multiple vendor…
Physicians preferred AI-generated discharge summaries over human-written ones for 95% of longer hospital stays, according to a Stony Brook (N.Y.) University study published online Oct. 2 in npj Digital Medicine. Researchers used OpenAI’s GPT-5.2, accessed through a HIPAA-compliant Microsoft Azure…
Cleveland-based University Hospitals has no estimated timeline for restoring its IT systems, nearly two weeks after detecting unusual activity on its servers Oct. 22. In a Nov. 2 update on its website, the health system said it is working to…
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…
As AI races into exam rooms and onto patients’ phones, the physician’s role is more important than ever — not because doctors must police the technology, but because chatbots cannot replace trust, judgment and the patient-physician relationship, according to Jan…
Evan Williams, PharmD, the new director of pharmacy at Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine’s Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, is preparing to open a new central pharmacy in his first year leading a department of more than 500 team members. The…
Walmart opened a 100,000-square-foot central fill pharmacy in Litchfield Park, Ariz., that can fill up to 100,000 prescriptions a day for more than 700 stores across 12 western states, according to ABC15 Arizona. It is the sixth facility in the…