Oracle Health is expanding its reach beyond EHRs, introducing AI tools for clinical care, revenue cycle management and hospital operations while pursuing new partnerships across healthcare and life sciences. The company’s efforts include AI-powered clinical assistants, new financial management capabilities…
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Federal policymakers are now pressing on drug prices from six directions at once: tariffs, most-favored-nation pricing deals, international price benchmarks in Medicare and Medicaid, reshoring and limits on importation. Several of these efforts are delayed, narrowed or facing lawsuits, so…
A Department of Justice investigation found a seventh medical school discriminated in its admission process based on race. It said that Ohio State University College of Medicine discriminated against white and Asian students in its 2023, 2024 and 2025 admissions.…
Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health is pushing into the competitive Charlotte, N.C., market, as Charlotte-based Atrium Health and Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health move to defend their ground. Duke Health and Gastonia, N.C.-based CaroMont Health shared plans Oct. 14 to form a…
Performance ratings for the FDA and CDC have hit an all time low, according to an Oct. 15 Gallup poll. Gallup asked 1,000 U.S. adults to rate the job performance of 12 federal agencies and five Cabinet departments as excellent,…
Joe Theine was named president of CommonSpirit Mercy Hospital, effective Dec. 7. The move brings Mr. Theine back to the Durango, Colo.-based hospital, where he oversaw physician operations earlier in his career, according to an Oct. 21 news release. He…
The American Hospital Association and its fellow plaintiffs asked a federal court Oct. 21 to reject motions by AbbVie, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim and PhRMA to intervene in the lawsuit seeking to block HRSA’s 340B rebate pilot, according to…
UC San Diego joined a federal initiative backed by up to $41 million to develop a national clinical trial platform for testing potential treatments to prevent or slow Alzheimer’s disease. The four-year project, funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency…
A recent study found that executives who bring colleagues into the conversation on earnings calls are more likely to become CEO, The Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 20. The study was published online April 8 in Management Science, a journal…
Roughly 43% of U.S. hospitals are operating at a loss, up from about 33% before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Kaufman Hall’s August 2026 “National Hospital Flash Report,” published Oct. 13. The latest month of data shows the pressure is…