Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has given labor half the seats on a new AI Task Force with direct decision-making authority over technology investments, under a 2025 agreement with the Alliance of Health Care Unions detailed in a report by Cambridge,…
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The number of first-year students at U.S. medical schools that grant MD degrees rose 36.8% from the 2005-06 academic year to 2025-26, but fewer are staying in their home state. Over the same period, the share of those students who…
Oracle Health spent September unveiling AI tools for cancer care, revenue cycle and nursing, even as Congress moved to force Oracle’s top executives to testify about the VA’s EHR contract and Oracle added $700 million to its restructuring plan. Here…
Baltimore-based Sinai Hospital has begun using Sepsis ImmunoScore, an FDA-authorized AI diagnostic tool designed to help clinicians identify patients who have or are at risk of developing sepsis. The tool analyzes up to 22 clinical and laboratory measurements and generates…
So far in 2026, Becker’s has reported on 12 health systems that announced, advanced or finalized hospital projects worth $1 billion or more. Six of the projects involve new hospitals or patient towers located in the South, including Texas, Georgia,…
Several health systems have open CIO positions after previous executives departed or retired, with some organizations naming an interim IT leader. Here are the top 200 health systems by revenue without a permanent CIO, as of late September: — Ardent…
Hospitals and health systems should more formally integrate supply chain operations into emergency preparedness as disruptions continue to expose vulnerabilities in product availability and response processes, according to a September field insights brief from the American Hospital Association. The brief…
Nebraska’s Medicaid work requirements are causing coverage losses mainly through unanswered verification notices, not through enrollees failing to meet the rules, according to a Sept. 29 analysis from KFF. KFF researchers drew the data from Nebraska’s Sept. 17 Medicaid Advisory…
Hospital and health system CEOs across the U.S. have made several moves recently, including appointments at new organizations and departures. Some executives have remained with their organizations in expanded roles overseeing multiple facilities, as some systems eliminate individual hospital CEO…
Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health identified unauthorized access to information associated with certain Southern Indiana patients’ radiology files following a vendor security incident. IU Health learned Aug. 4 that its IT vendor, AME Group, may have been susceptible to a previously…