UVA Health is the latest health system to offer virtual primary care that uses AI to gather information from patients before connecting them with a clinician, joining at least nine other systems with similar 24/7 care models. Here are the…
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Keith Mueller, PhD, director of the Rural Policy Research Institute at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, and a founding member of its Health Panel, died Sept. 26 following a brief illness. He was widely regarded as one of…
Ed Simcox has been named executive vice president and chief digital technology officer of Indianapolis-based Community Health Network. Mr. Simcox made the announcement via an Oct. 2 LinkedIn post. Before joining Community Health Network, Mr. Simcox served as senior director…
Patrick Frias, MD, spent the first 18 years of his career at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, rising from pediatric cardiologist to the inaugural chief physician executive to COO before heading west in 2018. In January, a phone call from his…
CMS opened its Medicare Part D Claims Data 340B Repository Oct. 1 for voluntary data submissions, ahead of a proposed Jan. 1, 2027, deadline when submissions would become mandatory for 340B covered entities and their third-party administrators. Here are four…
HRSA announced Oct. 1 that it has approved 10 drugmakers to participate in a revised 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program, which will replace the traditional upfront 340B discount with a post-sale rebate structure for a limited set of drugs starting…
Healthcare’s AI conversation has moved from adoption to performance. Many health systems have built the technology and governance to scale AI. The harder question is whether clinicians and staff are ready to make sound decisions with it. A health system…
Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke’s University Health Network opened its $252 million St. Luke’s Heart Hospital at its Anderson Campus in Easton, Pa., Oct. 2. The five-story, roughly 355,000-square-foot heart hospital is the largest construction project in St. Luke’s more than…
Nearly half (44%) of nonprofit hospitals in Texas say they will send patients a bill before checking whether they qualify for free or discounted care, Tradeoffs reported Oct. 1. The nonprofit newsroom reviewed the presumptive eligibility policies of 166 nonprofit…
Becker’s asked pharmacy executives from hospitals and health systems, along with academic medical centers and universities across the U.S. to share what trends they deem dangerous. The 14 executives featured in this article are all speaking at Becker’s Healthcare 3rd…