The chief information officer explains the ways the New Orleans health system uses emerging technologies to achieve its goals.

After an extensive national search, Intermountain Healthcare has selected Tiffany Capeles, a nationally recognized diversity leader, to serve as the health system’s first chief equity officer, the system has announced.

The American Hospital Association and the American Nurses Association said they are grateful for the court’s leniency in sentencing former nurse RaDonda Vaught to three-years probation instead of prison time for giving the wrong drug to a 75-year old patient, who died.

The National Institutes of Health has announced an agreement with the World Health Organization and the Medicines Patent Pool to make COVID-19 health technologies available worldwide.

Automation is essential to healthcare, according to Jan Larsson, senior advisor at Cambio Healthcare Systems. He marks Finland as a trailblazer in interoperability.

There’s been a nursing shortage in the U.S. for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic has made the situation even more dire. Nurses are retiring, leaving for new roles or abandoning the profession altogether, and there aren’t enough trainees in the academic system to make up for the expected shortfall. Nursing, it would seem, is in […]

Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health are merging and plan to transition to the new brand, Advocate Health, the organizations have announced. The new organization will have a combined footprint across Illinois, Wisconsin, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. It will serve 5.5 million patients, operate more than 1,000 sites of care and 67 […]

GE Healthcare’s SVP and GM of Edison AI & Platform Vignesh Shetty says the company’s process can use AI and individual judgment to make great discoveries.  

The American Hospital Association and more than a dozen other provider organizations have asked Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to keep the public health emergency until it is clear that the global pandemic has ended.

Drug manufacturer Pfizer has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, a maker of migraine treatments, for $11.6 billion, the former said this week. Pfizer will also make payments at closing to settle Biohaven’s third party debt and for the redemption of all outstanding shares of Biohaven’s redeemable preferred stock. The boards of […]