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Competitors or collaborators? How Community Health Systems and tech companies are addressing the same RCM problem

The revenue cycle doesn’t start at the billing department. It starts at the patient encounter. In this on-demand session from Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle Conference, Community Health Systems and several ambient AI companies share how each uses…

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Craig Levoy, MD, Director, Innovation and Clinical Informatics, Community Health Systems
Kevin Wang, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Suki AI
Sal Lo, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Jorie AI
Mike Ellison, Head, Health System Sales, Stellar Health
Mohammod Arafat, MD, MPH, Clinical Product Leader, SmarterNotes, SmarterDX

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Fritz François, MD, Executive Vice President, Vice Dean, and Chief of Hospital Operations at NYU Langone Health

In this episode, Fritz François, MD, Executive Vice President, Vice Dean, and Chief of Hospital Operations at NYU Langone Health, joins the podcast to discuss managing healthcare demand and improving patient access while navigating the evolving needs of health systems.…

Caswell Samms, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Nemours Children’s Health

In this episode, Caswell Samms, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Nemours Children’s Health, joins the podcast to discuss minimizing administrative work so healthcare teams can spend more time with patients. He also shares insights on transforming the…

'Administrative savings alone will not be enough': Mass General Brigham cuts more jobs amid $300M budget shortfall

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham has started a new round of layoffs, its second in less than two years, as the state’s largest health system aims to lift an operating margin its leaders say is too thin to sustain its…

What Epic revealed at its developer conference: 10 takeaways

Epic used its developer conference to open more of its platform to outside AI and apps, and to remind those developers that the traffic they generate lands on health systems’ infrastructure. The second annual Open@Epic ran Oct. 21-22 at the…

Driving Growth and Operational Excellence in Outpatient Surgery

In this episode, Justin Oppenheimer, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Surgery Partners Inc., discusses the growth of ambulatory surgery, health system partnerships, physician alignment, operational excellence, and the organization’s priorities around people, growth, and performance. He also shares his…

Vaccine reduces risk of melanoma recurrence, death by 42%: What to know

Receiving a personalized mRNA-based cancer vaccine alongside immunotherapy lowered the risk of recurrence or death by 42% versus immunotherapy alone in a phase 3 clinical trial of patients with surgically resected stage 2B to 4 melanoma. The vaccine, called intismeran…

Feds launch False Claims Act self-disclosure pilot

HHS and the Department of Justice’s Civil Division have launched a six-month pilot program for healthcare companies that report themselves for potential civil violations of the False Claims Act. Under the Healthcare False Claims Act Self-Disclosure Pilot Program, companies that…

CommonSpirit's 452-site virtual hospital is becoming a workforce pipeline

As Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health moved more of its hospitals onto similar technology platforms, leaders saw an opportunity to address nurse and provider shortages by using virtual care to make better use of limited resources at the bedside, in the home…

Why Atlantic Health's new CFO visited all 8 hospitals in 6 weeks

David Nosacka spent his first six weeks as executive vice president and CFO of Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health visiting each of the system’s eight hospitals. Mr. Nosacka, who joined Atlantic Health in August, has since mixed in visits to the…