Plus: Bill floats fines for nurse OT violations

August 14, 2026

1. 1 dead in officer-involved shooting at Alabama hospital campus Full story

2. 51 hospital closures since 2024 Full story

3. Physician-to-CMO Podcast: The instincts that save lives but derail leadership. Listen now

4. Epic launches tool to share diagnostic images between hospitals Full story

5. Hospitals referred to DOJ over pediatric gender care billing Full story

 

6. Weak patient selection is quietly capping remote monitoring returns. Two health systems explain here.

7. Payers ranked by prior authorization denial rates Full story

8. Insurers are under siege heading into 2027 Full story

9. Deepfakes now target patient portals and call centers. Learn how to stop the fraud here.

10. Lawmakers push for mandatory overtime cap for nurses Full story

 

11. De-escalation in behavioral health: UF Health, Memorial Hermann on protecting staff and patients here.

12. AdventHealth, Intermountain sign Denver joint venture agreement Full story

13. AMA sued over CPT billing code copyright: 8 things to know Full story

14. Prescription drug prices post steepest annual drop since 1963 Full story

15. Judge dismisses discrimination lawsuit against Harvard Full story

16. ‘Could I explain this to a patient?’ How CIOs draw the line on vendor ethics Full story

17. 52 hospitals, health systems cutting jobs in 2026 Full story

Becker’s Learning Opportunities

18. Northwell’s CMIO & peers on why AI pilots stall on the data, not the model here.

19. 30,000 geriatricians are needed by 2030. Only 7,400 practiced in 2022. See the workforce response here.

20. AI can miss clinical nuance without expert oversight. See the human-in-the-loop model here.

21. How Reid Health and Tanner Health use ambient AI to strengthen rural workforce sustainability: here.

 

 

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