The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs has signed and served subpoenas compelling Oracle executive chair Larry Ellison and co-CEO Mike Sicilia to testify about the company’s $27 billion VA EHR contract. The committee voted 19-0 to force the testimony after…
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Here are 21 health systems that have had their credit ratings upgraded by Fitch Ratings or Moody’s Investors Service in 2026: Broward Health’s credit rating was upgraded to “A2” from “A3” by Moody’s. The upgrade reflects the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based…
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions convened Sept. 16 to consider three of President Donald Trump’s nominees for top HHS posts: Nicole Saphier, MD, for surgeon general, Chris Klomp for HHS deputy secretary, and Timothy Westlake, MD,…
The hospitals on the U.S. News & World Report pediatric Honor Roll rarely change. Neither, it turns out, do the people running their IT departments — eight of the 11 CIOs here have held their current title since at least…
Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health has restored telephone service across all of its locations as the health system continues recovering systems affected by a cybersecurity incident. The health system said in a Sept. 16 update that patients can again call physician…
Almost 90% of seven-day hospital readmissions are not preventable, according to a study published Aug. 31 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Researchers at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital reviewed 244 seven-day readmissions among 204 adult patients discharged from…
Sanford Health’s latest expansion is pushing the Sioux Falls, S.D.-based system into a new phase of growth: one that increasingly blends its deep rural footprint with a major urban presence. On Sept. 1, Sanford acquired North Memorial Health, a two-hospital…
Rockledge, Fla.-based Health First is laying off 214 employees amid program cuts, including ending its hospital-at-home program. The total positions cut represent about 2% of Health First’s 10,350-employee workforce, according to a Sept. 16 news release shared with Becker’s. The…
OpenAI has disclosed six instances of unexpected or concerning artificial intelligence model behavior as part of a new framework for tracking, investigating and publicly reporting model misalignment. The company outlined the framework in a Sept. 16 post, saying it is…
Holly Shelden was named CEO of Colfax, Wash.-based Whitman Hospital & Medical Clinics, according to a Sept. 17 news release shared with Becker’s. Ms. Shelden succeeds interim CEO Hank Hanigan, who previously led the hospital for more than 11 years…