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Ochsner updates C-suite, taps inaugural CAO
New Orleans-based Ochsner Health, a 46-hospital system, has created a new C-suite role and made several key changes to its executive leadership team to kick off 2024.
Healthcare awareness calendar: Key months, weeks and days in 2024
Here are the days, weeks and months set aside to raise awareness or recognize healthcare conditions and workers.
Texas hospital names CEO
Glen Oaks Hospital, a behavioral health hospital in Greenville, Texas, has named Harry Lemming its next CEO.
The life-saving COVID-19 drug few are using
While Paxlovid is highly effective at preventing severe COVID-19 and death, only a small proportion of high-risk patients take the medication, according to research conducted by the National Institutes of Health.
NextGen names new CFO, COO
Atlanta-based NextGen Healthcare, an EHR vendor, has named James Hammerschmidt as incoming CFO.
Best Buy Health names new CMO
Best Buy Health has named Benjamin Zaniello, MD, as its new chief medical officer.
Vanderbilt appoints population health leader
C.J. Stimson, MD, senior vice president of value transformation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s office of population health, has been appointed executive vice president for population health, effective Jan. 1.
The most-Googled health conditions in the US
People around the world turn to the internet for answers to their healthcare questions. A recent analysis of Google search trends gives insight into what, exactly, patients are curious about.
2 healthcare aspects on the cusp of change
Large language and multimodal models that respond with text explanations and ambient documentation in healthcare are on the cusp of change, UC San Diego Health’s first chief health artificial intelligence officer, Karandeep Singh, MD, told the La Jolla…
Joint Commission journal to issue themed editions on top challenges in 2024
As part of its 50th anniversary, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety is publishing special issues throughout 2024 that focus on top challenges in healthcare, with the first edition of the year homing in on health equity.
