Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health has named Sheldon Barr, MSN, president of its future Chesterfield, Va., hospital, effective July 1. Ms. Barr will lead strategic planning, development and execution of the new hospital before overseeing its day-to-day operations after it opens,…
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John Bartrum, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ undersecretary for health, shared plans to resign July 6. He was confirmed by the Senate Dec. 18. The VA will make an announcement regarding interim leadership in the coming days, a VA spokesperson…
Healthcare has broadly settled on a reassuring principle for clinical AI: keep the human in the loop. For most health systems, clinician oversight has become the standard safeguard and the structural answer to concerns about AI errors, bias and patient…
Aurora, Colo.-based Children’s Hospital Colorado has rolled out a new brand platform aimed at closing an awareness gap with families outside Colorado. The health system built the effort, called “Made For The Moments That Change Everything,” with Denver ad agency…
In this episode, Paul Testa, MD, Chief Health Informatics Officer at NYU Langone Health, joins the podcast to discuss how AI is being leveraged to create the best possible patient experience. He shares the value of “practicing out loud” to…
The mid-revenue cycle is where medicine, documentation, and coding converge to produce the record that determines reimbursement, risk adjustment metrics, and quality scores. Physicians make the clinical decisions that the entire record is built on. Yet at the stage where…
A surgical team at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health became the first in the U.S. to use intraoperative PET-CT imaging to successfully resect a breast cancer mass. The procedure was led by Denise Garcia, MD, assistant professor of surgery in the…
Anthropic restored public access to its Claude Fable 5 AI model on July 1, after the U.S. Commerce Department fully lifted export controls that had forced both Fable 5 and its sibling model, Mythos 5, offline for 18 days. For…
Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health has named Barry Large as chair of its Board of Trustees, effective July 1, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. Mr. Large succeeds Sheila Boyington, who is stepping down after nine years as chair.…
CT Lin, MD, chief medical information officer of UCHealth, retired June 30. Dr. Lin announced his retirement in a July 1 LinkedIn post and blog post. He had served in the role since 2012. Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth has 37,000 employees…