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What a Steward closure could mean for the Massachusetts nursing workforce

Healthcare leaders are addressing ongoing concerns over the future of Dallas-based Steward Health Care’s nine Massachusetts hospitals, their patients, employees and trainees as the health system continues to battle financial challenges. 

Why a health system CEO takes notes from public utilities

Leaders in the healthcare industry have at times taken notes from industries or businesses outside of healthcare. For Bob Riney, president and CEO of Detroit-based Henry Ford Health, this is public utility and energy companies.

CVS' CEO on taking up space

Karen Lynch, president and CEO of CVS Health, says she once considered herself “the plainest person you could ever meet.” 

UChicago Medicine to pay $14M in wrongful death lawsuit verdict

The University of Chicago Medical Center has been found responsible in a wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of a boy who at age 4, and must pay $14 million to the family, The Chicago Tribune reported March 14.

Lurie Children's works to restore MyChart post-hack

Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is in the process of bringing its MyChart system back online after it was taken offline Jan. 31 in the wake of a cyberattack.

8 likely next in-demand nursing roles, per Tampa General's chief nurse

Healthcare is transforming, and so is the nursing profession.

Meditech, Microsoft's Nuance partner

EHR vendor Meditech will embed Microsoft’s Nuance DAX Copilot into its Expanse EHR platform. 

CommonSpirit creates internal AI assistant

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has launched its own internal AI assistant, Insightli.

Heard at HIMSS '24: How 12 healthcare leaders use generative AI at work

Generative artificial intelligence was the talk of this week’s HIMSS 2024 conference in Orlando, Fla., with executives discussing their health systems’ plans for the technology.

Oracle Health 'not just an EHR company,' Seema Verma says

Even though Oracle Health is one of the largest EHR vendors in the world, the company does way more than that, its general manager says.