Health system CEOs and compliance leaders say expanding federal enforcement activity is pushing systems toward earlier cross-functional coordination, more proactive compliance monitoring and greater use of AI-driven risk analytics. Within the past two weeks, federal officials took actions involving medical…
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Hospital bad debt and charity care are rising at unsustainable rates, and the problem is unlikely to ease any time soon. According to Kaufman Hall’s “National Hospital Flash Report,” which analyzed hospital data from March 2026, the growth in bad…
Healthcare AI solutions tout their ability to identify more at-risk patients and irregularities imperceptible to physicians, all while keeping a human in the loop. But are there enough humans to handle all this additional demand brought on by AI? That’s…
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The biggest roadblock to digital health’s future isn’t patient adoption or EHR interoperability. According to Ryan Cameron, executive vice president and chief information and innovation officer at Children’s Nebraska in Omaha, its identity management and the window to get ahead…
Studies being presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s 2026 annual meeting, being held May 29 to June 2 in Chicago, will highlight how GLP-1s could reshape oncology care, with research linking the drugs to lower cancer incidence and…
Drugmakers Biogen and Denali Therapeutics said they will discontinue development of BIIB122 for idiopathic Parkinson’s disease after the drug failed to meet primary and secondary endpoints in a phase 2b study. The phase 2b Luma study evaluated BIIB122, an investigational…
Nurses at Houlton (Maine) Regional Hospital plan to begin a four-day strike May 26, according to a news release from the Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee. The union, which represents 55 nurses at the 25-bed hospital, said the…
HHS’ Office of Inspector General has found that patients in vertically integrated Medicare Part D plans pay substantially higher out-of-pocket drug costs — and that data gaps are preventing a full picture of how consolidation affects pharmacies, according to a…
Austin-based UT Health Austin was named the most trusted healthcare brand in Monigle’s “2026 most trusted healthcare brands” section of its Humanizing Brand Experience Vol. 9 report. Brand consultancy Monigle surveyed more than 3,000 nationally balanced U.S. healthcare consumers for…