Knoxville-based East Tennessee Children’s Hospital rebranded as Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital in February, garnering millions of impressions and major media coverage. Here are six things to know about the rebranding process and its results, according to a May 11 PRWeek…
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Upon the technology’s arrival, Kensaku Kawamoto, MD, PhD, University of Utah Health’s inaugural chief health AI transformation officer, considered himself something of an AI skeptic. The longtime clinical informatics leader spent a lot of his career building digital health tools…
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Turning OR access into strategic growth through visibility, governance, and automation at Lee Health
At Lee Health (Fort Myers, Fla.), we operate across four hospital campuses and four surgery centers. When including our General Surgery ASC in that mix, we perform more than 48,000 surgeries each year. Like many health systems, we were seeing…
Global Healthcare Exchange announced the winners of its annual GHXcellence Awards May 13. The awards recognize organizations and individuals who are “leading with purpose, strengthening the foundation of healthcare, and building more resilient, patient-centered supply chains,” GHX said in a…
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists has released results from the 2026 PGY1 residency match, covering both phase 1 and phase 2, and the numbers reveal a range of outcomes across the country’s pharmacy schools. Of the 4,486 applicants who…
Hear two post-fracture care specialists share their perspective on how to effectively transition patients’ post-fracture osteoporosis care from the inpatient to outpatient setting. Dr. Aloiya Kremer will share her perspective on best practices for starting a post-fracture osteoporosis care program,…