Plus: White House moves to tighten NIH grant oversight

September 21, 2026

1. 1 injured in Florida hospital shooting Full story

2. 31 large health systems growing bigger Full story

3. Transform unusable data into AI-ready building blocks with clinically informed enrichments and strict governance to ensure your insights improve research and help develop more efficient care models.

4. Trump vows ‘AI Force,’ AI czar as health systems eye policy shift Full story

5. White House seeks stricter oversight of NIH grants: Report Full story

 

6. Ambient AI isn’t just for the exam room anymore. Stanford Health Care and UT Southwestern show how it’s transforming ORs in this Sept. 29 webinar.

7. 60 hospitals closing departments or ending services Full story 

8. Elevance to cut 216 jobs in Louisiana amid Medicaid exit Full story

9. Clinical AI must deliver value now and evolve with the enterprise. CHOP and Baylor Scott & White leaders share how in this webinar.

10. The healthcare workers opting out of health insurance: KFF Full story 

 

11. Vendor safety assurances cannot carry health system AI decisions much longer. See what to demand instead in this webinar.

12. HCA CFO on claims AI: ‘We’re behind the payers’ Full story

13. NYU Langone, UPMC to end pediatric gender-affirming care, pay $9.45M in DOJ deals Full story 

14. Patient affordability a growing ‘pressure point’ for health systems Full story

15. Scale, pause or kill: How health systems are making AI portfolio decisions Full story

16. Senators revive healthcare cybersecurity bill with $1.3B for hospitals Full story

17. Epic is replacing more than EHRs Full story 

Becker’s Learning Opportunities

18. One orthopedic practice cut surgical cancellations from 2.23% to 0.66% — without adding staff. See how here.

19. Upfront pricing conversations build patient confidence. See how independent practices do it here.

20. KLAS scored an emerging pharmacy platform 94.5 vs an 81.1 average. Get the early findings here.

21. Becker’s upcoming webinars: between-visit oncology care, revenue cycle scaling and consumer AI. See the sessions here.

 

 

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