As hospitals across the country grapple with rising patient volumes, long wait times and overstretched staff, Baptist Health (Ark.) is proving that the solution isn’t always more space — it’s smarter ...

Faced with rising surgical demand and limited operating room capacity, Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System turned to AI-powered strategies to achieve a 16% increase in staffed room utilization ...

Members of the Michigan Nurses Association at UP Health System-Marquette plan to hold a “practice strike” Aug. 18. The union represents about 600 registered nurses and techs at the 222-bed specialty ...

Evolve Orthopedic Partners, a physician-led management services organization, has formed. The company completed its first foundational partnership with OrthoNY, which has orthopedic clinics and ...

Hampton Roads, Va.-based Sentara Health opened its new $278 million hospital, Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, on Aug. 8 in Elizabeth City, N.C. The 90-bed hospital and medical office building ...

When Bloomington, Minn.-based HealthPartners launched its My dashboard interface in 2021, it was not available to everyone. The personalized digital hub — designed to surface the right prompts, tools ...

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health has begun deploying AI-powered imaging equipment across its network, eight months after announcing a partnership with GE HealthCare. The seven-year Care Alliance ...

Several major U.S. health systems have appointed COOs this year — some to newly created positions — amid a resurgence of the COO role. While some systems have tapped internal veterans as successors, ...

Health Data Atlas, a data-as-a-service company, has bid $30 billion to acquire Epic Systems, according to its founder and CEO, Michael Stratton. On Aug. 14, Mr. Stratton shared on LinkedIn an email he ...

The potential expiration of the ACA premium tax credits at the end of 2025 could lead to a significant increase in emergency department visits, exacerbate provider burnout and drive up healthcare ...

HHS has reinstated the Safer Childhood Vaccines task force, the agency said in an Aug. 14 news release. Here are six things to know: 1. The task force, created by Congress, was originally disbanded in ...

A few weeks ago, CIO of Richmond, Ind.-based Reid Health Muhammad Siddique was doing a round of the ED department when he ran into one of his physician colleagues. She stopped to make a quick but ...