Morning complete blood counts and metabolic panels have been a routine for many hospitals, but leaders are rethinking which patients actually need routine blood work and are putting precautions in place to help break habitual lab orders, Medscape reported Sept.…
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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…
The federal office charged with improving minority health has terminated more than half its active grants — 16 awards worth $38 million over four years — as the Trump administration redirects the money toward infertility and exercise, NOTUS reported Sept.…
Two out of every 5 young children who took Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy in a clinical trial lost enough weight to no longer be classified as having obesity, the drugmaker announced Sept. 7. When combined with diet and exercise,…
The FDA has granted accelerated approval to Etcamah (camizestrant), marking the first FDA approval of a cancer therapy guided by the detection of a resistance mutation in circulating tumor DNA before imaging tests show disease progression. Etcamah is used with…
Albuquerque, N.M.-based Presbyterian Hospital said it found Legionella pneumophila in limited areas of the water system, including two rooms, Fox affiliate KRQE reported Sept. 7. The hospital implemented testing for the bacteria after a patient who recently received care at…
Anindita “Annie” Saha, director of the FDA’s Division of Digital Health Outreach within the Digital Health Center of Excellence, has left the agency after more than 21 years. Ms. Saha’s exit ends a tenure that spanned multiple leadership roles inside…
About 82% of employed physicians nationwide work for corporate entities, and nearly 75% have only experienced this model, a Physician Advocacy Institute report found. The “2026 Employed Physician Survey” canvassed more than 1,000 U.S. physicians employed by hospitals, health systems…
Mayo Clinic’s AI chief sees its partnership with Microsoft as a chance to do something the health system’s growing collection of AI point solutions cannot: learn from the whole patient. Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo and Microsoft announced June 2 that they…
Rachel Hardy, MSN, RN, has been named chief nursing informatics officer at Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network. Ms. Hardy announced the appointment in a Sept. 2 LinkedIn post. She most recently worked at Optum, where she provided advisory services in provider…