Patrick Avila is stepping down as CEO of Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville, Mo. He has accepted a new opportunity, he wrote in a March 8 LinkedIn post. Mr. Avila called the role at Northeast Regional “an honor.” “Rural…
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In December 2024, UCI Health completed three simultaneous milestones: it integrated four newly acquired hospitals onto a unified technology platform, opened a brand-new $1.2 billion hospital, and migrated from a shared Epic instance to its own dedicated one — all…
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WVU Health System plans to deploy AI-assisted hospital room technology across all 25 of its hospitals through a new partnership with hellocare.ai. The Morgantown, W.Va.-based health system selected the company for an enterprise-wide rollout of its intelligent hospital room platform,…
King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services is acquiring online behavioral health provider Talkspace in a deal valued at about $835 million. Talkspace has a network of about 6,000 licensed behavioral health professionals serving all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and…
President Donald Trump is calling for “unprecedented coordination across government and the private sector” to increase the nation’s cybersecurity. “Our adversaries and cyber criminals … disrupt critical services like healthcare, banking, food supply, and water treatment,” Mr. Trump wrote in…
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By 2023, 60% of rural counties and 38% of urban counties did not have any hospital-based obstetric services, according to the University of Minnesota’s Rural Health Research Center report. The “Availability of Hospital-Based Obstetric Services in the United States by…
West Burlington, Iowa-based Great River Health will implement Epic’s MyChart patient portal beginning June 6. The rollout is part of the system’s broader transition to Epic’s electronic health record. The portal will allow patients to view test results, schedule and…
Hims & Hers Health is partnering with Novo Nordisk to expand access to FDA-approved GLP-1 weight loss medications through its U.S. platform. The agreement includes Ozempic injections in 0.5-, 1- and 2-milligram doses, as well as Wegovy injections in 1.7-…