Gainesville, Fla.-based UF Health is testing a new blood management program to prevent unneeded transfusions among surgical patients, according to an Aug. 13 report from Mainstreet Daily News.
More specialized and experienced roles such as information security, data and cloud experience are the most challenging roles to fill for hospitals and health systems, according to Brad Reimer, CIO of Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health.
McLaren Health Care has appointed Madeline Watts as director of its government and regulatory affairs. She assumed the position after Allisyn Mattice-Eskau took a corporate attorney position within the Grand Blanc, Mich.-based health system.
After complaints piled up about “Meatless Mondays” at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, leaders pivoted to a new strategy: Removing the words “vegan” and “vegetarian” from the cafeteria’s menu, NPR reported Aug. 11.
A surgical team recently performed the nation’s first robot-assisted liver transplant at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Aug. 14.
Epic Systems and Microsoft have had a long-standing partnership, but have since expanded their alliance as they look to develop and integrate generative AI into their products, as well as make Microsoft’s cloud platform compatible with running the larg…