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Health system technology leaders have spent much of 2026 talking about how AI will reshape their departments. The IT jobs actually leaving hospitals so far have taken a different route out: through outsourcing contracts, EHR go-lives and team consolidations. The…

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health and Minneapolis-based Allina Health plan to combine into a $26 billion, 39-hospital system, but the financial case for the integration goes well beyond economies of scale. It’s about using growth to overcome a fundamental problem in…

When the START Center for Cancer Care hit the ceiling on infusion capacity, the obvious fix was also the most expensive: build more space. Two high-volume infusion centers were straining against their limits, with one nearly out of room to…

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Cleveland-based University Hospitals has restored patient access to its MyChart portal, 16 days after a cybersecurity incident took the health system’s digital services offline. UH detected unusual activity on its servers Oct. 22 and disconnected its systems from the internet…

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, Va., have developed an AI tool that predicts how genetic mutations affect protein stability, potentially helping scientists identify mutations associated with disease. The deep-learning tool, called ERIS2, was developed…

St. Louis-based Ascension is extending its revenue cycle partnership with R1 through fiscal year 2037.  The 11-year renewal follows Ascension’s enterprisewide rollout of Phare OS, R1’s AI-driven revenue operating system, according to a Nov. 9 news release. The platform automates…

The FDA is investigating postmarket reports of malignancies in patients treated with Novartis’ gene therapy Zolgensma for spinal muscular atrophy, including confirmed cases of product-related insertional oncogenesis, according to a Nov. 6 agency safety communication. The agency said it is…

Two hospital systems allegedly lost nearly $7.8 million in an international fraud scheme in which criminals used advanced technology to impersonate CEOs and attorneys, tricking employees into transferring millions of dollars to fraudulent bank accounts. Three foreign nationals have been…

Chad Smith was named COO of Highpoint Health with Ascension Saint Thomas Riverview in Carthage, Tenn., and Highpoint Health with Ascension Saint Thomas Trousdale in Hartsville, Tenn., according to his Nov. 7 LinkedIn post. Mr. Smith starts in the role…

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