More than two percent of adult patients now take a GLP-1 drug to treat overweight or obesity, according to newly released FAIR Health data, with much of the increase occurring over the past few years.

C-suite leaders, including hospital executives,are struggling to keep up with policy volatility as the federal government under the Trump administration rapidly reimagines economic and regulatory policies, according to a new PwC pulse survey.

Rajiv Kolagani, vice president and chief data and AI officer at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, said AI holds tremendous promise when it comes to administrative processes.  

Express Scripts, the pharmacy benefit manager for Cigna, has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a new law in Arkansas that would prohibit PBMs from owning or operating pharmacies in the state, and CVS and Caremark have filed their own

The White House released its planned 2026 budget for the Department of Health and Human Services on Friday.

HIMSS digital health strategist Philip Bradley said INFRAM stages six and seven have advanced expectations for healthcare organizations, and most have yet to achieve the designation.  

Innovaccer cofounder and CEO Abhinav Shashank said modern IT systems would benefit from a single layer of data that payers and providers can connect to in order to support population health.

Rebecca Woods, Marissa Maldonado and Roz Cordini spoke at HIMSS25 about the importance of women self-promoting and building their personal brands in order to advance in the health IT space.  

Sandra Johnson, senior vice president of client services at CliniComp, said artificial intelligence is being used to boost administrative functions and make billing faster and easier.

Baycare Health System in Clearwater, Florida, will pay $800,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights to settle allegations of potential HIPAA violations. OCR investigated Baycare after it received a complaint in 2018 regarding impermissible access to the complainant’s electronic protected health information.