In this episode, Kathy Donovan, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Hospital Sisters Health System, joins the podcast to discuss developing a long-range capital plan and aligning investments with the health system’s broader growth strategy. She also shares…
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Health systems are rethinking how many technology executives they need at the top. In 2026, several systems have let IT C-suite titles lapse when leaders retired or left, folded those duties into a broader job or left the seats unfilled.…
San Francisco-based Dignity Health, part of Chicago-based CommonSpirit, reached an agreement to transfer its share of co-owned Arizona managed care health plan, Mercy Care, to CVS Health subsidiary Aetna. CommonSpirit had a 49.75% ownership interest in Mercy Care as of…
Two recent developments have sharpened a question health systems will eventually have to answer: How much care can AI deliver on its own? A Sept. 28 McKinsey & Co. analysis estimated that AI can perform the care represented in 16%…
Healthcare employment continued to trend up in September, adding 17,000 jobs, though at a slower pace than the average monthly gain of 33,000 over the prior 12 months, according to the Oct. 2 jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of…
Revenue cycle leaders are managing an environment that is changing faster than most organizations can adapt, and their team knows it. For many, the most acute pressure comes from payers deploying artificial intelligence to review and deny claims at a…
Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System announced Sept. 28 that executive vice president and CFO Alec King will succeed David Callender, MD, as president and CEO when he retires at the end of the year. Memorial Hermann joins two other health…
Minneapolis-based Children’s Minnesota will launch Epic across its hospitals, clinics and specialty care sites Oct. 3, following an investment of more than $175 million. The new EHR will replace multiple systems, consolidating clinical, scheduling, registration, billing and operational workflows into…