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The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs has voted unanimously to subpoena Oracle co-founder and executive chair Larry Ellison and Oracle co-CEO Mike Sicilia over the VA’s EHR modernization contract. The vote followed Oracle’s withdrawal from a Sept. 2 hearing. Committee…
North Bergen, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Palisades Medical Center has named Calvin Hwang, MD, chief medical officer, effective Sept. 8. Dr. Hwang most recently served as associate chief medical officer and associate chief quality officer at New York-Presbyterian/Allen Hospital, according to…
Mary Dale Peterson, MD, has stepped down from her role as executive vice president and COO of Corpus Christi, Texas-based Driscoll Children’s Hospital after spending 42 years with the organization. She first joined Driscoll Children’s in 1984 as a pediatric…
Mayo Clinic Platform’s Accelerate program has selected 12 artificial intelligence companies as the inaugural participants in its new multiyear engagement pathway. The multiyear track gives select companies sustained access to Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Platform’s de-identified clinical data ecosystem, discovery…
Executives at Amazon, Ford and JPMorgan Chase have all predicted AI will eliminate a wide swath of white-collar jobs in the years ahead. Healthcare, for now, has mostly been an exception: Job openings in nearly every healthcare category tracked by…
The Lindsay Clancy case has shone a spotlight on maternal mental healthcare. Ms. Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children, The New York Times…
The question healthcare CIOs are asking about artificial intelligence has changed. A year ago, the debate centered on whether to adopt. Now, it centers on whether organizations can actually see what their AI is doing once it’s in the building.…
Cleveland Clinic has opened two research buildings totaling 300,000 square feet on its main campus, part of what the system calls the largest research investment in its more than 100-year history. The buildings house more than 700 employees and nearly…
St. Louis-based SSM Health appointed John Lucio, DO, as president and chief medical officer for SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital in Jefferson City, Mo. Dr. Lucio most recently served as regional chief medical officer for SSM Health’s Mid-Missouri Region, according…