As generative AI tools increasingly shape how patients research symptoms, diagnoses and treatments, chief medical information officers say the challenge is not eliminating AI from clinical conversations — but helping clinicians respond with clarity, consistency and trust. Across health systems,…
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In this episode, Muhammad Siddiqui, Chief Information Officer at Reid Health, discusses how ambient AI is giving clinicians hours back each day, improving patient experience, and shaping the health system’s priorities around interoperability, virtual care, and responsible AI adoption heading…
In this episode, Joseph Lee, MD, President and CEO of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, discusses the growing crisis among young people, exploring the links between trauma, isolation, mental health, and substance use, and why integrated, community centered treatment is…
As regulatory pressure mounts and workforce shortages persist, Louisville, Ky.-based Baptist Health System is positioning pharmacy as a safeguard for medication access and a driver of system growth. On an episode of the “Becker’s Pharmacy Leadership Podcast,” Nilesh Desai, chief…
Texas officials have selected UT Southwestern Medical Center to operate a new state psychiatric hospital set to open in Dallas this spring. Texas Behavioral Health Center will be the first state-owned behavioral health hospital in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according…
Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham and Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed an AI tool to predict cancer spread in patients with oropharyngeal carcinoma. The noninvasive tool uses CT imaging data to estimate the number of lymph nodes with pathologic…
Perry Sham has been named CFO of Niagara Falls (N.Y.) Memorial Medical Center, effective Dec. 29. Prior to his new role, Mr. Sham served as executive vice president and CFO of East Meadow, N.Y.-based Nassau Health Care Corporation, according to…
A coalition of 19 states and Washington, D.C., have filed a lawsuit challenging a declaration from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that threatens to cut off federal funding to hospitals that provide certain gender-affirming care to minors. Here are…
Surgeons at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health performed more than 200 adult and pediatric heart transplants this year — the most of any individual transplant center in the world. This year, 16 children and more than 185 adults received heart transplants…
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