Strategy

Academic health systems (AHSs) deliver capabilities few other organizations can replicate, but their payer contracts do not always reflect that value. Their advanced services, specialized expertise, and essential community role carry costs that must be clearly understood and appropriately addressed…

Healthleap, a clinical AI platform that screens patients for conditions that often go undiagnosed, today announced $38 million in combined seed and Series A funding from Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, and Hummingbird Ventures. Healthleap reads each patient’s full record…

Three years ago, St. Louis-based Ascension set out to close gaps in breast and colorectal cancer screenings, with a focus on communities facing medium-to-high social vulnerability. The effort was part of a broader strategy to use community and clinical data…

Revenue cycle leaders are balancing two urgent priorities: keeping today’s operation running while building the model for the future. The decisions they make now about ownership, workflows and workforce skills will determine whether AI fundamentally reshapes the revenue cycle or…

Outpatient volumes are projected to grow 20% over the next decade, compared with 7% growth in inpatient discharges. That shift is changing how health systems plan their facilities including where to invest, how to connect outpatient sites and how to…

Healthcare organizations are deploying AI faster than they can build the controls to secure it. Most security tools were designed to monitor users, servers and networks, not the data AI systems ingest, transform and transmit. In a featured session sponsored…

For most of its history, Hospital Sisters Health System operated as a collection of individual hospitals, each running its own operations, serving its own markets and maintaining its own workflows. The work of the past three years has been to…

Patrick Frias, MD, spent the first 18 years of his career at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, rising from pediatric cardiologist to the inaugural chief physician executive to COO before heading west in 2018. In January, a phone call from his…

As AI moves deeper into hospital operations, health system COOs and strategy leaders say their roles are shifting from gathering information and overseeing workflows to coaching teams, building governance and deciding where the technology belongs. Many are using AI to…

UnitedHealthcare is withdrawing from international private medical insurance in the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the insurer confirmed to Becker’s Sept. 29. According to a Cigna news release, UnitedHealthcare Global will exclusively recommend the Cigna Global Health Benefits…