Jon Vitiello, CFO of Chesterfield, Mo.-based St. Luke’s Hospital, has been appointed to the advisory board of revenue cycle management company Infinx Healthcare. Infinx’s advisory board helps the company remain aligned with providers’ evolving needs, helping guide customer advocacy, product…
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Ruchit Kumbhani has been appointed senior vice president of service lines and chief ambulatory care officer at Stanford (Calif.) Health Care. “I’m proud to continue serving an institution I care deeply about and look forward to building on our momentum…
Daniel Weatherly has been appointed CEO of Fayetteville, N.C.-based Cape Fear Valley Health. He has served in the role on an interim basis since January and joined the system in 2011, according to a March 26 Facebook post from the…
Liz Sellers, MSN, has been appointed CEO of Cibola General Hospital in Grants, N.M., according to a March 20 Facebook post from the hospital. Ms. Sellers brings more than 20 years of healthcare leadership experience to the role, according to…
Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare and K Health have jointly launched PatientGPT, a 24/7 clinical AI assistant that integrates with the health system’s EHR and care team. Unlike consumer AI tools, PatientGPT is embedded within Hartford HealthCare’s infrastructure and can access patient…
Nearly 1 in 5 people who turn to Microsoft Copilot for health information discuss personal symptoms or conditions, the tech giant found. Microsoft analyzed more than 500,000 deidentified health-related conversations from January to reveal what people are asking. Nationwide, consumers…
Y. Michael Shim, MD, has been named chief of the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, both in New York City, effective April 1. In the role, Dr. Shim, a…
Russell Adams, MD, chief medical officer of UnityPoint Health-Waterloo (Iowa), will retire April 6. “Dr. Adams’ impact on the hospital and our organization has been immeasurable,” Carolyn Barko, interim president for UnityPoint Health-Waterloo, said in a March 23 Facebook post.…
Multiple hospitals and health systems have suffered downgrades to their financial ratings this year amid rising expenses, ongoing operating losses and challenging work environments. Here are 10 hospitals and health systems that received credit rating downgrades from Fitch Ratings or…
Health system AI initiatives tend to follow a familiar arc: leadership identifies a promising tool, a committee evaluates it, and the organization deploys it to the people who will use it. Tampa General Hospital is running a different sequence. “We…