Ask a health system CIO which of their peers does technology best, and most have an answer ready. Ask them to size up their own budgets against the industry, or to name the executive title healthcare could live without, and…
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Drug costs are emerging as one of hospitals’ fastest-growing expense categories, outpacing labor and other nonlabor costs as organizations continue to navigate a challenging financial environment, according to Kaufman Hall’s latest “National Hospital Flash Report.” Nationally, drug expense per adjusted…
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, owned by Tower Health and Drexel University, has signed a non-binding letter of intent to form an alliance with three other health systems to support strong pediatric care across the city. Six things…
Active U.S. drug shortages increased to 227 in the second quarter of 2026, marking the third consecutive quarterly increase, according to a new report from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. While shortages remain well below the record 323 reported…
A cyberattack on New Jersey law firm Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis has exposed data on 12,801 patients across three health systems in the state. Greenbaum discovered unauthorized access to its systems through a compromised user account in November 2025…
The FDA has approved Merck’s Lipfendra (enlicitide), a once-daily oral therapy to reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in adults with high cholesterol or heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia. The approval was supported by two randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials involving 3,207 adults already taking…
San Francisco-based UCSF Health has launched UCSF Health Converge, an AI accelerator built with Kleiner Perkins and Doerr Capital that embeds startups directly inside the health system’s clinical operations. The program takes an “inside-out” approach, selecting a small number of…
Hospitals are rethinking their operations and infrastructure for electrophysiology services amid the specialty’s rapid growth. Electrophysiology is a specialty within cardiology through which the heart’s electrical system is treated and diagnosed. Electrophysiologists treat a range of irregular heart rate conditions…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has deployed roughly 150 AI models across its health system, CNN reported July 16. The tally, according to Matthew Callstrom, MD, a radiologist and medical director of the health system’s generative AI program, spans tools built…
The New York City Health Department is investigating a Legionnaires’ disease cluster that has hospitalized 53 people so far, and identified 76 water towers that have tested positive for the bacteria. On June 27, the health department identified the first…