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Tauana McDonald plans to retire at the end of 2026 as president and CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based Mount Carmel Health System after nearly a decade with the organization. Ms. McDonald joined Mount Carmel in 2017 as its first chief administrative…
Hawaii will receive $58 million through the Rural Health Transformation Program to bolster the state’s healthcare workforce, purchase new ambulances and upgrade emergency communications systems. Hawaii will distribute $45 million to the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of…
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As clinical AI moves from isolated deployments to enterprise infrastructure, health system leaders face a more consequential question: which technologies deliver meaningful value today while continuing to evolve with the needs of the enterprise? Health systems must assess whether the…
Sep 29, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Stephon Proctor, PhD, Associate Chief Health Informatics Officer, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Jill Reeves, Vice President of Quality, Baylor Scott & White
- Nadim Ilbawi, MD, Vice President, Clinical Success & Strategy, Abridge
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Richard Yochum plans to retire April 30 as president and CEO of Pomona (Calif.) Valley Hospital Medical Center after nearly 50 years with the organization. Mr. Yochum joined the hospital in the late 1970s as an administrator and held several…
OpenAI has added an Epic EHR integration and a public health data plugin to ChatGPT for Healthcare, with San Francisco-based UCSF Health serving as a pilot partner. The Epic integration lets authorized clinicians at healthcare organizations with supported Epic environments…
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