Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital–Needham (Mass.) has welcomed Randolph “Randy” Howard Jr. as its new COO. Mr. Howard joins from Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, Mass., another member of ...

St. Louis-based Ascension said June 17 that it has entered an agreement to acquire AmSurg, an ASC operator with more than 250 facilities across 34 states. Six things to know: 1. The move will ...

The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic has been providing virtual second opinions to tens of thousands of patients a year — and is expanding. The Clinic, a joint venture between Cleveland Clinic and ...

All 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories have agreed to a $7.5 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma over its role in the opioid epidemic, NPR reported June 16. The agreement, ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is making measurable progress in its effort to implement a unified Oracle Health EHR system across all VA medical centers by 2031, according to Paul Lawrence, PhD, ...

Cleveland Clinic patients who received the Ross procedure for aortic valve replacement after 2000 have experienced better outcomes than patients who received the procedure prior to 2000, according to ...

Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth has appointed new chief medical officers at two of its hospitals. Omayra Mansfield, MD, has been named vice president and CMO at AdventHealth Celebration in ...

Despite a “significant decrease” in the clinical risk of heart failure patients admitted to hospitals acquired by private equity firms, clinical outcomes did not improve, according to a study ...

U.S. News & World Report published its 11th annual Best Global Universities rankings June 17, evaluating 2,250 top institutions across 105 countries based on their global and regional research ...

A Houston-based Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center team has performed a fully robotic heart transplant. The procedure marks the first fully robotic heart transplant to be performed on an adult patient ...

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health has signed a new three-year agreement with Latent Health to expand the use of AI tools that streamline medication prior authorizations across its network. The ...

St. Louis-based Ascension said June 17 that it has entered an agreement to acquire AmSurg, an ASC operator with more than 250 facilities across 34 states. The move will significantly expand the ...