The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has awarded contracts to six teams to build the first FDA-authorized agentic AI system for cardiovascular care. ARPA-H announced the selections Sept. 9 under its Agentic AI-EnableD CardioVascular CAre TransfOrmation, or ADVOCATE, program.…
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In this episode,Katrina Ascencio-Holmes, BSN, RN, Chief Nurse Officer, Sutter Health, discusses strategies to recruit, retain and develop the health system’s 18,000 nurses, including career development, mentorship, shared governance and frontline engagement. She also shares how Sutter is investing in…
Efforts to transform prior authorization are at a critical crossroads: Will government mandates result in just compliance or catalyze national migration to FHIR-based electronic prior authorization (ePA)? The answer to this question cannot be found in the specifics of the…
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- Robert Tennant, Executive Director, Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI)
On Sept. 8, the University of Rochester (N.Y.) renamed its nursing school the School of Nursing & Health Sciences, reflecting an expansion beyond nursing into interdisciplinary health professions. The change was driven by the school’s planned launch of a Doctor…
Iowa City-based University of Iowa Health Care has scrapped its more than $2 billion inpatient tower project, opting instead to modernize and expand the health system’s existing footprint. The academic health system detailed the shift in a Sept. 9 statement…
Healthcare CFOs have the shortest average tenure of any industry tracked — 3.7 years, nearly a full year below the 4.5-year cross-industry average — according to the 2026 mid-year Volatility Report from Crist|Kolder Associates. The executive recruiting firm tracks the…
For Serpil Erzurum, MD, the decision to build two research buildings on Cleveland Clinic’s main campus was an investment in the future of the health system’s research and innovation strategy. It also marked the largest research investment in the organization’s…
As health systems expand their use of artificial intelligence, some are asking a more fundamental question about vendor access to healthcare data: Does the data need to leave the health system at all? That is the approach Palo Alto, Calif.-based…
Medicaid spending could fall 10% to 25% in 17 states under new state-directed payment limits enacted through HR 1 if affected payments do not receive temporary grandfathered status from CMS, according to a study by health policy analyst Debra Lipson.…
Hospitalized cancer patients with opioid dependence stayed in the hospital longer and developed bloodstream infections more often than patients without the condition, according to a study published Sept. 5 in Medical Oncology. Researchers at the University at Buffalo (N.Y.) and…