In this episode, Jose Azar, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Quality and Clinical Service Line Officer at Hackensack Meridian Health and Professor of Medicine at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, discusses launching the Agile Institute to rapidly implement evidence…
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In this episode, Karen J. McConnell, PharmD, MBA, Chief Pharmacy Officer at Michigan Medicine, discusses building a unified pharmacy strategy across multiple campuses, launching a systemwide pharmacy and therapeutics committee, and expanding specialty and ambulatory pharmacy services. She also shares…
Harpreet Pall, MD, MBA, CPE, Chief Medical Officer at Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center and K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital, discusses efforts to reduce clinical variation and strengthen multidisciplinary care coordination. He also shares leadership strategies for improving patient…
New research from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is offering what the organization describes as the first publicly available data connecting rising hospital coding intensity to higher healthcare costs, pointing to AI-assisted coding tools as a likely driver. The…
The third round of the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program is moving forward with full manufacturer participation. The program, created under the Inflation Reduction Act, allows CMS to directly negotiate prices for high-expenditure, single-source drugs covered by Medicare Part B…
Kroger is now offering Zepbound KwikPen, a multidose version of Eli Lilly’s GLP-1 weight loss drug, at participating retail pharmacy locations. The rollout marks the first time self-pay patients may be eligible to use Lilly’s savings program for Zepbound at…
As patients increasingly turn to AI tools to interpret their health data, nurses are encountering new challenges at the bedside, according to a March case study in Nursing Outlook. The paper describes a chemotherapy patient who used ChatGPT to interpret…
HCA Healthcare’s CEO Sam Hazen saw his overall compensation increase by $2.7 million in 2025 as the health system reported a net income of $6.8 billion on revenue of $75.6 billion, according to a proxy statement filed March 13 with…
Justin Serrano, CEO of Crestwood Medical Center in Huntsville, Ala., has accepted a new role in Florida, effective April 13. Naples, Fla.-based Physicians Regional Healthcare System named Mr. Serrano CEO of its Collier Boulevard campus, according to a March 10…
In this episode, Ravi K. Bashyal, MD, Vice Chairman of Patient and Provider Experience at Endeavor Health and Clinical Assistant Professor at University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, shares how patient centered culture, standardized pathways, and surgical specialization have…