The Coalition of Health AI has released guidance on AI governance for health systems. The organization, which includes health systems, universities and tech companies, suggests eight critical elements: organizational AI policy, organizational structure, organizational resources, responsible AI lifecycle management, risk…
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UnitedHealthcare plans to remove about two-thirds of its prior authorization requirements for patients under 18 by the end of 2026. The insurer said May 29 the cuts will cover diagnostic services, routine surgical procedures, and specialty care across pediatric subspecialties…
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente Ventures is furthering its investment in digital platform Garner Health, joining a $100 million series E funding round for the care navigation startup. Garner Health uses a proprietary dataset of over 60 billion medical records to…
Wilmington, Del.-based ChristianaCare plans to open its ChristianaCare Hospital, Aston Township, Pa., campus on June 2. A second-floor outpatient health center is expected to open at the facility this fall to offer additional services, according to a May 29 news…
In late 2025, Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic set out to aggressively scale up AI agents. Who better to design them than the nurses who’ll be using them? The academic health system recently challenged its nurses to devise largely autonomous AI…
Joe Ottolino has been appointed CEO of Gateway Regional Medical Center in Granite City, Ill., the hospital wrote in a May 29 LinkedIn post. Mr. Ottolino has served as an executive at Cedar Health since December 2020, according to his…
Though now fixtures of the healthcare workforce, the physician assistant and nurse practitioner professions started with only a single training program and a handful of graduates. Katie McLaughlin, PhD, executive director of the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health at…
AI will play a central role in CommonSpirit’s future revenue cycle strategy after the Chicago-based system exits its outsourcing partnership with Conifer Health Solutions at the end of 2026, CFO Michael Browning said May 29. In February, it was announced…
The role of health system pharmacy executives has changed, as has the communication style required to sustain it. Pharmacy leaders at New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, UChicago Medicine and Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine told Becker’s how they translate pharmacy…
A new Medicare Advantage advocacy organization has emerged with the backing of several major health systems, adding more provider voices to the increasingly crowded debate over the future of the public-private program. The Alliance for Medicare announced its launch this…