Healthcare leaders have spent years focused on physician shortages, but today’s workforce challenges extend beyond recruitment alone. Across the industry, organizations are balancing growing patient volumes, provider turnover, service line expansion, financial pressures, and rising expectations around access to care.…
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Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health reported $395 million in operating income (4.1% operating margin) for the six months ended June 30, down from $494 million (5.4% margin) during the same period in 2025, according to financial documents published Aug. 25. …
Epic’s reach continued to widen in August, with new AI tools, health IT staffing services and interoperability features arriving alongside an FTC antitrust probe and developments in its legal fight over patient data. Here are eight Epic updates Becker’s has…
Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health raised hospice consultation rates from 44% to 84% by redesigning its EHR to automatically link hospice consultation orders to comfort measures orders, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. The study tracked more…
A group of Senate Democrats is raising new questions about HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s financial conflicts tied to Gardasil litigation against Merck. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., sent a…
Medical City Healthcare, a North Texas division of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, appointed Brandy Stegall, MSN, RN, as division chief nursing executive. In August 2024, Ms. Stegall became the chief nursing officer of Medical City Fort Worth, a 378-bed acute…
Arlington-based Texas Health Resources has promoted Vong Miphouvieng to vice president of enterprise clinical revenue cycle, according to a post on his LinkedIn page. Mr. Miphouvieng most recently served as the health system’s vice president of health information management services,…
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the American Hospital Association (AHA) filed separate comment letters this week targeting the 340B fight — AAMC on CMS’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program rule, AHA on Sen. Bill Cassidy’s 340B Drug…
Oracle Health’s month was dominated by its expanding federal footprint — a bigger VA contract and three more medical center go-lives — alongside a new AI-powered patient portal and continued fallout from last year’s Cerner data breach. Here are four…
Bill Gates says AI should not be allowed to deliver a terminal diagnosis to a patient, even though the technology is fully capable of doing so. In an Aug. 25 blog post, the Microsoft co-founder proposed a category of work…