Panama City-based HCA Florida Gulf Coast Hospital is in the design phase of a $125 million expansion project that will add a new patient tower and dozens of beds to its main campus, according to NBC affiliate WJHG. The project…
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The American Medical Association released its 2027 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set Sept. 9, an update that adds 299 codes and continues to build out billing for clinical AI. The set takes effect Jan. 1 and carries 453 total…
Call center nurses at Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente say the health system uses AI to monitor how long they spend on patient calls and presses them to move faster, CalMatters reported in July. Software flags calls that run longer than…
Picture the morning huddle where someone asks where a patient stands and three people check three different places to answer. One opens a spreadsheet, one checks a whiteboard and one calls the coordinator who happens to know. Nobody is wrong,…
Oct 8, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
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- Mauricio Garcia Jacques, MD, MPH, Founder & CEO, Raport Health · Practicing pain & anesthesia physician · Founder, ACHE Institute of Houston, Raport Inc
Four therapies have reshaped the outlook across oncology and metabolic disease in recent months. Two have already won FDA approval: a first-of-its-kind breast cancer drug guided by blood-based mutation detection and the first targeted pill for pancreatic cancer. A third,…
Joseph Teel, MD, has been appointed president of the Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic Medical Group, effective Sept. 8. Dr. Teel joined Newton Square, Pa.-based Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic from Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine, where he most recently served as chief of regional primary…
Health system margins have struggled throughout 2026, and the pressure shows no sign of easing. Rising costs and demographic shifts away from traditional profit centers now collide with newer threats: OBBBA-driven coverage reductions, rising payer denials, the accelerated outpatient shift…
Oct 8, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Christopher Kerns, CEO, Union Healthcare Insight
- Eric Fontana, Chief Data Officer, Union Healthcare Insight
- Ben Gerber, Chief Strategy Officer, WVU Medicine
The former chief clinical officer of Philadelphia-based Temple University Health System, Daniel del Portal, MD, has been named executive vice president and CCO of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health. As Temple’s CCO and senior vice president of medical operations, Dr.…
St. Louis-based BJC Health has named Cindy Keen vice president of revenue cycle business operations, according to a Sept. 8 post on her LinkedIn page. Ms. Keen joins the health system after spending more than six years at Centene. She…
Health-ISAC has issued a threat bulletin warning that the ShinyHunters cybercrime group is running targeted voice phishing (aka vishing) campaigns and registering medical-themed impersonation domains to breach health sector organizations. The nonprofit cybersecurity information-sharing group said Sept. 3 it has…