The White House has dropped plans for an executive order that would have given federal officials greater authority over grantmaking at the National Institutes of Health, Roll Call reported Sept. 23, citing a person familiar with the matter. The order,…
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Nearly one-third of working-age Americans with private insurance are paying off medical bills or debt over time, and many are delaying healthcare because of it, according to a Sept. 17 report from the Commonwealth Fund. The findings are based on…
The CDC reported its first measles death of 2026 but did not say where it happened, while Pennsylvania has reported four measles-associated deaths in August and September. The agency added the death to its measles dashboard with a note that…
South Bend, Ind.-based Beacon Health System plans to take “several steps” to improve its financial position amid industry financial pressures, including “organizational changes focused primarily on administrative and operational areas,” a system spokesperson said in a Sept. 23 statement shared…
The median base salary for all healthcare executives rose 4.1% this year, compared with 4.4% in 2025, according to a survey from consulting firm SullivanCotter. The 2026 Health Care Management and Executive Compensation Survey, released Sept. 24, covers positions across…
Hospitals have spent billions of dollars making workplace violence easier to count and no easier to survive. For decades, it has been treated as an occupational hazard, something clinical staff are expected to absorb as part of the job. That…
Rising drug spending, persistent shortages and a thin workforce pipeline are among the top challenges for Denise Scarpelli, PharmD, vice president and chief pharmacy officer at UChicago Medicine. Dr. Scarpelli oversees pharmacy operations, strategy, finances and growth across the system’s…
As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everyday hospital operations, health systems are confronting a new question about what happens when the AI disappears or quietly stops working as intended. For CIOs and other technology leaders, the issue is becoming more…
Hospitals have posted 103 CEO exits through the first eight months of 2026, up 21% from 85 in the same period last year, according to a report from global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas published Sept. 24. Five things…
The American health record was not designed with patients in mind. Records are stored by hospital systems, formatted by the EHR vendor each institution uses and largely inaccessible to patients who see multiple providers or cross institutional lines. Larry Ellison,…