Artificial intelligence has arrived on both sides of the hospital-health plan negotiating table, and Deborah Greer, MD, wants to make sure one thing doesn’t get lost in the speed: the physician who has to own the call. Dr. Greer is…
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Health system CEOs strive for sustained growth. Marlon Levy, MD, a career transplant surgeon who stepped into the CEO role at Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health four years ago, has been able to achieve it. But that doesn’t mean the health…
Nurses and clinicians from Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham who are part of the Massachusetts Nurses Association are rallying outside the health system’s World Medical Innovation Forum Sept. 22-23. Five things to know: 1. The rallies call on Mass General…
McKesson said unauthorized access and data exfiltration tied to a cybersecurity incident was limited to certain third-party applications affecting a subset of customers within its Oncology & Multispecialty business. The company said in a Sept. 21 update that the incident…
Thousands of lawsuits, including at least 4,000 consolidated claims, allege GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound and Trulicity have caused vision loss, with a recent wave focused specifically on nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, according to a Sept. 21…
Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health has received a ‘transformational gift’ from the Scott Bieler Family Foundation to its Kaleida Health Foundation to support projects at its Buffalo General Medical Center. The donation amount was not provided. Kaleida will rename the hospital…
Artificial intelligence carries costs that are visible, growing and increasingly tied to token-level consumption. What it delivers in return is harder to quantify and health system leaders say that gap, more than any technology limitation, is the central challenge of…
Phoenix-based Banner Health appointed Kevin Manemann executive vice president and chief operating and transformation officer, effective in October. Mr. Manemann will oversee Banner Health’s operational and transformation agenda, according to a Sept. 21 health system news release. He brings more…
Suicide moved into the 10 leading causes of death in the U.S. in 2024, even as the number of suicide deaths declined from the year before. The finding comes from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics’ Sept. 22 report,…
Ruston, La.-based Northern Louisiana Medical Center has been removed from a 90-day Medicare termination track after clearing all condition-level deficiencies identified in the recent regulatory survey process, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s. The spokesperson said the Louisiana Department of…