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Essentia, Marshfield Clinic call off merger in Midwest

Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health and Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System have ended efforts to combine into a 25-hospital regional health system. 

SSM Health affected by business partner breach

SSM Health, one of Oklahoma’s largest healthcare providers, said a partner vendor recently suffered a data breach.

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.

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…