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Separating AI Hype from Impact: Repeatable Outcomes and ROI When AI Understands Full Patient Complexity

Join Dr. Kalie Dove-Maguire, President and Chief Product Officer at Evidently, and physician leaders from major health systems for a direct conversation about what repeatable clinical AI outcomes look like when clinicians finally have the full complexity of the patient…

Sep 8, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT

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Kalie Dove-Maguire, MD, President and Chief Product Officer, Evidently
David Marcozzi, MD, MHS-CL, FACEP, Chief Clinical Officer and Senior Vice President, University of Maryland Medical Center
James M. Blum, MD, CDH-E, Chief Health Information Officer, University of Iowa
Spencer Dorn MD, MPH, MHA, Executive Medical Director, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Becker's 3rd Annual Fall Chief Pharmacy Officer Summit

Mississippi hospital board member, former CEO remembered as advocate for rural communities

Kenneth Posey, who spent more than 50 years in hospital administration and was described as a “dedicated advocate” for rural healthcare, died July 23. He was 89. Mr. Posey spent 36 years as CEO of Jasper General Hospital in Bay…

The next ambulatory challenge isn’t growth. It’s building networks designed to operate at scale.

Health systems spent years expanding ambulatory access through clinics, outpatient centers and multispecialty networks. Now many organizations are confronting a different challenge: managing increasingly distributed ambulatory portfolios that were not originally designed to operate at scale. This whitepaper explores how…

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Urban hospital closures and net change, by state

A total of 438 urban hospitals closed across the U.S. between 2000 and June 2026, according to data shared with Becker’s from New Haven, Conn.-based Yale University’s Health Care Affordability Lab. Between 2001 and 2023, the period for which both…

Nebraska launches dashboard tracking rural health funds

Nebraska’s Department of Health and Human Services launched a public dashboard July 30 tracking the state’s Rural Health Transformation Program funding. Six notes: 1. The agency built the tool to show stakeholders and the public how transformation program dollars are…

Wellstar makes leadership structure changes amid 761 job cuts

Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System is making changes to its leadership structure amid 761 job cuts. “We are recalibrating our leadership structure to reduce administrative layers and better align with industry best practices, which means that some Wellstar leaders’ roles…

The AI virtual-care consolidation wave

Two acquisitions announced a day apart this week point to a broader consolidation wave among AI-native virtual care companies, as scaled platforms move to acquire clinical data, provider networks and health plan capabilities rather than build them from scratch. Included…

4 cancer drugs in shortage: When drugmakers expect supply to rebound

Drugmakers have pushed back their resupply estimates for carboplatin, one of four chemotherapy drugs in a monthslong shortage, with some formulations now not expected to return until 2027. Cisplatin, carboplatin, oxaliplatin and ifosfamide, which form the backbone of treatment for…

AdventHealth makes 3 Florida hospital CEO moves

Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth has named three executives to new CEO roles across its West Florida Division, according to a July 30 LinkedIn post published from Regional CEO Jennifer Wandersleben. William Villegas was named CEO of AdventHealth Dade City (Fla.).…