The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees approved the initiation of design and construction of several projects for Louisville-based UK HealthCare. Four things to know: 1. The projects for UK King’s Daughters in Ashland, Ky., and Portsmouth, Ohio represent an…
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Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine has launched a multiyear initiative to bring Lancaster (Pa.) General Health and affiliated entities onto its shared electronic health record platform. The PennChart Integration & Expansion Program, or PIE, will move Lancaster General Health and its affiliated…
Active drug shortages in the U.S. reached 227 in the second quarter of 2026, marking a third consecutive quarterly increase, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Most pharmacy teams still learn about them the same way: a spreadsheet,…
Oct 20, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
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- Calvin Hunsicker, Founder and CSO, SureCost
- Kelly Cicero, Product Manager, SureCost
Many prior authorization initiatives focus on doing the same work faster. But what if instead of speeding up tasks, you could eliminate unnecessary work altogether? Authorization requirements are growing more complex. For healthcare organizations, that means looking beyond traditional automation…
Oct 15, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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Presenters:
- TJ Burdine, Principal, Optum Advisory Margin Transformation, Optum
- Tyler Graham, Product Director, Digital Authorization Complete, Optum
Two UC Health emergency departments avoided more than 3,500 unnecessary head and cervical spine CT scans over 23 months with no missed injuries identified, according to a study published in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. The quality improvement campaign…
While hospital leaders debate which revenue cycle tasks to automate and where AI yields the best ROI, a major shift is underway: the other side of the claim is already using AI. Large payers are deploying artificial intelligence to review…
Virtual nursing often serves as a natural pathway for nurses who want to continue practicing but are ready to step back from the bedside. But when Meka Douthit Ingram, DNP, RN, is hiring, she leans on a seven-letter acronym —…
An investigational immunotherapy was found to almost double median overall survival in patients with previously treated squamous non-small cell lung cancer, according to new trial data. Gotistobart, developed by BioNTech and OncoC4, showed a median overall survival of 18.5 months,…
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) began treating patient readiness as a capacity issue after seeing how late cancellations could delay care and leave valuable OR time unfilled despite a significant surgical backlog. The challenge was finding a way to…
The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee inaugurated Shekar Kurpad, MD, PhD, as its seventh president and CEO Sept. 17. Dr. Kurpad has more than two decades of service at MCW at the academic medical center and medical school, according…