Bloomington, Minn.-based HealthPartners has named Blake Berquist executive vice president and CFO. Mr. Berquist brings more than 17 years of healthcare finance and operations experience to the integrated health system, according to an April 20 news release. He most recently…
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Rural hospital CEOs are hitting a breaking point. Inpatient volumes are shrinking, workforce costs are climbing, and the fee-for-service model that once anchored community hospitals offers diminishing returns. But rather than waiting for the margin pressure to resolve itself, a…
As health systems aspire to extend care beyond the visit, AI tools are becoming essential to orchestrating pre and post-visit outreach without adding to the burden on the clinical workforce. This was a main theme at a panel discussion sponsored…
Primary care providers generate higher-quality notes than AI scribes, illustrating the need for humans to continue reviewing and editing drafts created by the technology, a new study found. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had 30 humans blindly…
From AI specialists to communications to billing experts, Amazon is hiring for a variety of jobs for its healthcare arms. The tech giant continues to fill healthcare-related roles for One Medical, Amazon Health Services and Amazon Web Services. Here are…
Cases of coccidioidomycosis, or Valley fever, jumped from 1.8 in 100,000 children in 2021 to 10.9 in 100,000 in 2024, a University of California, Los Angeles study found. The study, published March 12 in Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases…
Fort Worth, Texas-based JPS Health Network has broken ground on a new hospital that it calls the centerpiece of its master facility plan. The $1.5 billion hospital will significantly expand capacity and bring advanced clinical services into modern, integrated spaces,…
West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, Ill., is continuing its reopening process, recalling about 80 of 670 furloughed employees back to work. The hospital resumed hospital-based clinic and outpatient testing services April 15 — the first step in reopening…
Southern California Permanente Medical Group, based in Pasadena, Calif., has named Patrick Springob its chief innovation officer. Mr. Springob announced the appointment in an April 19 LinkedIn post. He has been with the organization since 2002. Most recently, he served…
Cincinnati-based Mercy Health and Toledo (Ohio) Public Schools have partnered to launch a pharmacy technician training program for high school students in Toledo, according to an April 17 report by WTOL11. The program enables students to earn a pharmacy technician…