Jeff Johnston has been named president and CEO of Tulsa, Okla.-based Hillcrest HealthCare System, effective July 14. Mr. Johnston brings 30 years of experience with multi-state health systems and academic medical centers, according to a June 23 health system news…
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Preston Hammock has been appointed senior vice president of business and partnership development at Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health. The newly created role underscores the importance of partnerships in improving care and access, according to a June 23 Cone Health news…
The 59 leaders featured in this article are speaking at Becker’s 10th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference. The conference will take place Sept. 30th – Oct. 3rd at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago. If you’d like…
David Theroux has been appointed CEO of Hendry Regional Medical Center in Clewiston, Fla. He assumed the role June 16. Mr. Theroux brings 24 years of experience to the role, including 18 years at Hendry Regional, according to a June…
City of Hope, based in Duarte, Calif., has developed a proprietary AI platform called HopeLLM. The platform combines commercial and open-source models to assist physicians in summarizing patients’ medical histories, matching them with clinical trials, and extracting data for research,…
Jane Russell, PharmD, has been appointed president and CEO of Bath Community Hospital in Hot Springs, Va., effective Aug. 25. Dr. Russell most recently served as COO at Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital in Newport, Ore., according to a June 20…
ECRI, a national patient safety nonprofit, recently named Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health the winner of its 2025 Health Technology Excellence Award. In the last five years, Prisma has quickly expanded to become South Carolina’s largest health system, according to an…
Novo Nordisk has ended its partnership with Hims & Hers, citing concerns over the telehealth company’s promotion and sale of the drugmaker’s compounded versions of Wegovy. The drugmaker alleged that Hims & Hers marketed unauthorized versions of semaglutide, the active…
An automated AI system accurately performed echocardiogram interpretation with a median normalized mean absolute error of 0.13, according to a study published June 23 in JAMA. Researchers trained the system, called PanEcho, on echocardiogram data from transthoracic echocardiographs performed at…
Why do top healthcare employees really leave — and what are CHROs overlooking before it happens? Dr. Helen Riess, Founder of Empathetics, joins Becker’s Lukas Voss to unpack the neuroscience behind trust, emotional safety, and retention. Learn actionable steps leaders…