UPMC has launched a new home care program, UPMC Your Care, designed to fill the gaps between traditional care settings and home. “Sometimes our biggest opportunity isn’t inside the hospital or the physician’s office; it’s closing the space between transitions…
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Health systems are spending heavily on AI, but proving what it delivers remains a challenge. Only 4% of systems have scaled AI with measurable outcomes, and 4 in 5 IT leaders struggle to measure AI’s return, according to an April…
University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland and Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, are expanding their partnership to improve care, strengthen capacity and increase access in Northeast Ohio. Four things to know: 1. The expanded collaborative builds…
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GE Healthcare announced Oct. 5 a definitive agreement to acquire SOFIE Biosciences, a Positron Emission Tomography radiopharmaceutical company, for $945 million in cash. SOFIE Biosciences manufactures PET radiopharmaceuticals including Flyrcado (flurpiridaz F18 injection), which the FDA approved in 2024 to…
Healthcare organizations are deploying AI faster than they can build the controls to secure it. Most security tools were designed to monitor users, servers and networks, not the data AI systems ingest, transform and transmit. In a featured session sponsored…
For most of its history, Hospital Sisters Health System operated as a collection of individual hospitals, each running its own operations, serving its own markets and maintaining its own workflows. The work of the past three years has been to…
In this episode, Patrick Velliky, Chief External Affairs Officer, HaloMD, discusses new research on the No Surprises Act, emergency medicine reimbursement, and the impact of the IDR process on healthcare spending. He examines pre and post NSA payment trends, utilization…
Weymouth, Mass.-based South Shore Health has warned job seekers about a fraudulent career website and scammers that are impersonating the system’s talent acquisition team via email and text message. “Our team is actively addressing this issue through the appropriate channels…