More than a dozen experimental obesity drugs are working their way through clinical trials, and the last year has reshuffled the leaderboard: some candidates have advanced into pivotal phase 3 studies, others have won approval overseas and at least one…
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Despite still being viewed by many as laggard when it comes to technology adoption, the healthcare industry has made some progress in this area over the past decade. The electronic health record (EHR) is a case in point. Most health…
In this episode, Benjamin M. Schwartz, MD, MHCM, President, Academic Delivery, Banner Health, discusses the future of academic medicine, the opportunities and risks of AI in clinical care, and how Banner is improving outcomes, accelerating clinical trials, and strengthening the…
Congress eyes price transparency, surprise billing overhauls: What revenue cycle leaders should know
Federal lawmakers are beginning to return from their summer recess, with the House of Representatives resuming session Aug. 31 and the Senate scheduled to return Sept. 14. With only a handful of legislative days remaining in the session, lawmakers are…
The American Academy of Pediatrics reaffirmed its recommendation that young and high-risk children receive COVID-19 vaccines and expanded the list of high-risk children it advises to receive respiratory syncytial virus immunization for a second season. The recommendations, published Sept. 2,…
Like many who have fallen victim to stereotyping and falsehoods, public servants have found themselves on the defensive in recent years, forced to push back against perceptions that they are unproductive and an unnecessary burden on taxpayers. No workforce has…
Epic has experienced a wave of executive departures and leadership reshuffling over the past several weeks. Here are 11 executive moves at Epic reported by Becker’s since July 6: 1. Nick Marzotto, a former vice president of clinical applications and…
When William “Bill” Robertson, CEO of Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System, described how his organization grew into the largest community-based health system in the Pacific Northwest over 12 years, he credited three cultural principles. Among them is what he calls…
Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth, which operates more than 50 hospital campuses and hundreds of care sites across nine states, has completed three expansion projects across two Central Florida hospitals. Five things to know: 1. The Daytona Beach project raised inpatient…
Anthropic has unveiled Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, a data security framework built with feedback from healthcare organizations and more than 100 other enterprise customers to detect cyberattacks and other misuse while letting hospitals keep control of their AI activity data. EFS…