Omaha, Neb.-based Nebraska Medicine is warning employees about a wave of Microsoft Teams voice calls impersonating IT support staff, becoming the latest health system to sound the alarm on a scam that has hit hospitals across the country over the…
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Amazon is hiring software and applied-science leaders, an AI product manager and a healthcare cybersecurity specialist — the kinds of roles hospital and health system CIOs and chief digital officers are competing for as they build out their own AI…
Ambient documentation has scaled faster than the review process meant to check it. Expert clinician review remains the gold standard for note quality, but it does not scale to millions of notes a week. That leaves oversight teams working from…
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has released updated guidelines supporting fallopian tube removal to reduce ovarian cancer risk. The updated guidance was published Aug. 20 in Obstetrics & Gynecology. The move comes after a study found fallopian tube…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic recorded operating income of $501 million (8.6% operating margin) in the second quarter of 2026, up from $394 million (7.4% margin) during the same period last year, according to its Aug. 21 financial report. Five things…
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health has opened a cancer center in Park City, Utah. The Intermountain Health Park City Hospital Cancer Center increased infusion capacity from four bays to 18, according to an Aug. 20 news release from the health…
A six-month screening campaign contained a Candida auris outbreak at a Seattle hospital without a single patient developing a symptomatic infection, researchers reported Aug. 19 in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Harborview Medical Center, a 500-bed public hospital and Level I trauma…
Four health system chief human resources officers recently announced departures from their roles over the span of five days. It follows 23 CHRO moves Becker’s reported earlier in 2026, including a total of 10 in June and July. Three CHROs…
Hospitals and health systems are bracing for a potential wave of baby boomer retirements. Meanwhile, many Generation X workers could stay in their roles longer, according to an Aug. 19 Korn Ferry article. Professionals in their mid-50s used to be…
Steven Schultz, PharmD, is joining Arlington, Texas-based Texas Health Resources as system pharmacy officer, he said in an Aug. 20 LinkedIn post. He previously served as vice president of pharmacy operations for Fort Worth, Texas-based JPS Health Network. At JPS,…