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Hospitals are at an inflection point. Today’s ED boarding, workforce shortages, and rising length-of-stay pressures can’t be solved by yesterday’s tools. Inpatient leaders are expected to deliver safe, predictable care amid bottlenecks that shift by the hour — a challenge…

Sep 1, 2026 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM CDT

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Emerging research has linked GLP-1 medicines to a lower risk of breast cancer and better outcomes among people diagnosed with the disease. Here are five findings from studies highlighted in an Aug. 20 Breastcancer.org report: All of the studies were…

Private equity activity in healthcare services slowed sharply in the second quarter as rising interest rate expectations, soft patient volumes and new state-level deal restrictions combined to weigh on mergers and acquisitions, according to an Aug. 14 report from PitchBook.…

Kaleida Health’s transition to Epic’s EHR system cost the Buffalo, N.Y.-based health system $170 million and contributed to a $21.1 million operating deficit in the second quarter of 2026, a spokesperson for the organization confirmed to Becker’s.  The Epic platform…

At Seattle Children’s, approximately 94% of specialty referrals arrive by fax. That means staff process more than 10,000 referrals each month across 39 specialty clinics. Before a patient can be scheduled or seen, staff must review each referral, identify missing…

Aug 25, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT

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  • Shannon Degnan, MSN, Clinical Systems Architect, Seattle Children's
  • Grant Egerdahl, IT Applications Analyst, Lead with the Departmental Systems team, Seattle Children’s

Epic used its Users Group Meeting executive address this week to confirm publicly for the first time that it’s participating in Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s effort to test its most capable — and still unreleased — AI model against critical software…

Lee McCall will step down as CEO of Neshoba General Hospital in Philadelphia, Miss., to become administrator of University of Mississippi Medical Center’s community hospitals, he told Becker’s Aug. 21. Mr. McCall will oversee the Jackson-based system’s hospitals in Madison,…

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