Jita Pandya Buño has been appointed CEO of the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, effective Sept. 1. She will succeed Cindy Hecker, who is retiring in July, according to a June 27 ...

While proposed Medicaid cuts have become a frequent topic in healthcare, the broader implications for a country where healthcare comprises 20% of the economy are less often discussed, according to Tim ...

Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine has doubled the size of its Center for Reproductive Medicine and opened new services to families. The center was established in 2002 and offers individualized ...

As patient expectations evolve and healthcare systems face mounting pressure to deliver more value-driven care, leaders across the country are rethinking how primary care is delivered. From digital ...

A Michigan physician was sentenced to four years in prison for her role in a $6.3 million Medicare fraud scheme. What happened?

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft’s AI arm, says the tech giant has taken “a genuine step toward medical superintelligence,” Wired reported June 30. In a recent test, Microsoft’s new AI system — ...

CMS has unveiled the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction model, a new Innovation Center initiative aimed at reducing unnecessary services in traditional Medicare and streamlining the prior ...

Oracle Health, the nation’s second-largest EHR vendor by hospital market share, has had a busy June. Here are nine times Becker’s reported on the company in the past 30 days: 1. The U.S. Department of ...

An employee of Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio, was injured June 27 after being struck by a bullet “in the line of duty”, the hospital wrote in a Facebook post. James Fair, 36, a hospital patient ...

The Republican-led Senate kicked off a vote-a-rama on June 30 after it voted 51-49 in a procedural vote on June 28 to advance the President Donald Trump-backed One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The revised ...

The Trump administration may cut off funding to hospitals that provide gender-related care to children and teenagers, according to a June 30 report from the The Wall Street Journal. CMS told the ...

MIT and Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham have launched a new seed program aimed at accelerating innovation in healthcare by funding collaborative research projects between the two ...