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Here are six new drug shortages and discontinuations, according to drug supply databases from the FDA. 

Massachusetts HHS secretary Kate Walsh has stepped down from her position after more than 40 years in healthcare. Kiame Mahaniah, MD, succeeded Ms. Walsh on July 14. Prior to her role as state HHS secretary, Ms. Walsh served as CEO…

In the last four years, Beth Israel Lahey Health has expanded its primary care physician workforce by 30%, but its specialty workforce has remained relatively stagnant, according to its chief clinical officer, Rob Fields, MD.  There are a few factors…

Generation Z healthcare workers prioritize financial wellness and mental health support — and hospitals and health systems are responding. Given changing demographics and labor shortages, organizations across the U.S. are focused on recruiting and retaining the newest generation to enter…

We’ve come a long way from when electronic health records (EHRs) were first built as billing systems. As we progress as an industry toward better usability, it’s clear that general best practice workflows have not reflected the daily realities of…

Joanna Weiss, executive vice president and CFO of Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center, has spent nearly two decades serving in various finance-related roles at the National Cancer Institute-designated center.  She began her career at Moffitt as director of internal audit,…

Several CEO moves have occurred at hospitals operated by HCA Healthcare, a for-profit health system based in Nashville, Tenn. Twenty-two CEO moves at HCA hospitals since Dec. 3: Editor’s note: This list was created on Jan. 9 and updated on…

Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Health is expanding its Stay in the Game initiative, a targeted prostate cancer screening program aimed at boosting early detection among Black men. Speaking with Becker’s, Thomas Loughran, MD, director of the UVA Cancer Center, shared how…

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, said the agency may fast-track new drugs from pharmaceutical companies that equalize the cost of their medicines between the U.S. and other countries, Bloomberg reported July 11.  “We can issue a national priority review voucher…

If hospital and health system CIOs had unlimited resources, where would they place their biggest technology bets? Becker’s asked several IT leaders: If you had a blank check to invest in one technology tomorrow, what would it be and why?…