Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines has opened the Methodist Atrium Pharmacy,, according to a May 29 report from CBS affiliate KCCI. The pharmacy is located at the hospital and is open to the public. Patients do not need…
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Fairfield Medical Center in Lancaster, Ohio, signed a nonbinding letter of intent June 1 to explore a formal partnership with Chillicothe, Ohio-based Adena Health after Fairfield’s planned acquisition by Columbus-based OhioHealth fell through. “Although regulatory hurdles created obstacles to our…
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Health systems have spent the past two years stress-testing ambient AI scribes, but isolating return on investment has remained difficult due to many overlapping initiatives and a lack of clean attribution paths. Agentic AI is shifting that calculus. When an…
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Rochester (N.Y.) Institute of Technology and the University at Buffalo (N.Y.) School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have formed an academic pathway that will allow qualified RIT students to pursue a PharmD degree or a master’s in pharmaceutical sciences. Under…
Ten hospitals and health systems recently posted job listings seeking revenue cycle management expertise. Note: This is not an exhaustive list. Listings were compiled from job-seeker sites. 1. Baptist Health, based in Little Rock, Ark., seeks a revenue integrity auditor. …