For some health system technology leaders, rolling out AI tools was the easy part. Proving they are still worth paying for is the harder, ongoing job. Shahidul Mannan, chief data officer at Boston Medical Center, put the sharpest number on…
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Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health has selected Oracle to standardize its clinical, financial and operational technology. Building on its existing use of Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Quorum will adopt Oracle Health EHR, Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, Oracle Health Patient Accounting,…
Medicare Advantage now covers more than 51% of eligible beneficiaries, but for a growing number of health systems, participating in the program has become a lose-lose proposition: stay in and absorb mounting losses, or exit and hand competitors an enrollment…
El Dorado Springs, Mo.-based Cedar County Memorial Hospital is working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and external forensic experts to investigate an August IT disruption that left its Meditech EHR offline for two weeks. The hospital voluntarily shut down…
Health systems have spent years running AI pilots. The question now is what comes after scaling them. Four leaders working at organizations with populations ranging from tens of thousands to 5 million patients say the answer requires something most organizations…
Managing utilization review for a single hospital is demanding enough. Dr. Maliha Iqbal, MD, SFHM, CHCQM-PHYADV, ACPA-C, does it for 11 — as the sole physician advisor at Beacon Health System. Despite her caseload doubling after a merger, she closed…
The line between the CFO’s office and the revenue cycle department is disappearing, four health system leaders said Sept. 15 during a panel discussion at Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle Conference. Beth Carlson, chief revenue officer at Columbus-based…
Albany (N.Y.) Med Health System has named two executives to lead its digital and quality strategies. Robert “Robbie” Freeman, DNP, RN, will become chief digital officer Oct. 5, while Jennifer Rabaglia, MD, will join the system as chief quality officer…
Sumbella Baqai, MD, was named chief medical executive of Sutter Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, Calif., effective Oct. 12. Dr. Baqai will serve as the hospital’s senior physician executive and work with interim CEO and chief nurse executive Jonathan…
Twenty-five health systems are developing artificial intelligence agents for clinical and operational workflows as part of an Epic event. The organizations are participating in Epic’s second Agent Factory Build-a-Thon in Verona, Wis., according to a Sept. 15 company news release.…