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Purchased services represent one of healthcare’s most under-leveraged opportunities to unlock value, improve performance, and accelerate execution.

The ViVE digital health conference put AI center stage. Here’s a quick overview of some key lessons from the big event.

The last of the Baby Boomers are approaching retirement, and health systems must prepare for a bigger population of Americans who will need more care.

In an interview at the ViVE conference, he talks about focusing on solutions, embracing opportunities and stresses that speed is a superpower.

The White House and Congress extended Medicare waivers for home hospital programs into 2030, raising optimism that more health systems will offer acute care at home.

Addressing leaders at the ViVE conference, CHIME CEO Russ Branzell says the healthcare industry needs leaders like it never has before.

Leaders of rural health systems say vulnerable communities could lose access to care, and they hope policymakers pay attention.

Gulshan Mehta of the Blanchard Valley Health System in Ohio talks about the new rural health transformation fund and the prospect of helping patients and staff.

Health systems have to connect with lawmakers and policymakers, especially as hospitals face growing financial pressures and changes in federal policy.

The University of Mississippi Medical Center said it had to shut down clinics across the state due to the attack. The medical center took its systems down and said it could be a multi-day event.

Chief Healthcare Executive is launching a new video series examining the rapid changes in the industry. Our first guest, Soumi Saha, sheds light on federal policy shifts and what they mean for hospitals.

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist has a new CEO, and other leaders take new roles.

Dr. Marcus Schabacker, president and CEO of ECRI, talks about the risks from older tools that could expose organizations to malware.

Leaders from the health system will talk about how they found big savings in retiring obsolete systems.

The digital health conference will showcase discussions on improving disparities and expanding access to those in need.

Dr. Peter Slavin will participate in a discussion on how hospitals can manage in a challenging environment during the digital health conference this month.

Nurses at two systems have approved new contracts, but thousands remain on strike. The union calls it the biggest and longest nursing strike in the city’s history.

Rick Pollack talks with Chief Healthcare Executive® about the challenging environment for hospitals and why health systems could cut services or close facilities.

Hospitals won a court ruling to block the department from moving forward with a pilot program. HHS says a legal fight wouldn’t be ‘fruitful,’ but suggested it could try again down the road.

Dignity Health names a new market president, and other leaders take on new roles.

The Trump administration has excluded nursing programs from its list of professional degrees. Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, president of the American Nurses Association, urges nurses to speak out.

The health system has finalized a joint venture with Renown Health to operate a health plan and provide outpatient care services.

Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, the ANA’s president, talks with Chief Healthcare Executive about the impact on patients, nurses, and the fallout from the death of Alex Pretti.

President Trump signed a spending package that addresses some key healthcare priorities, including telehealth and funding for rural hospitals.

There is some optimism for more mergers and acquisitions in the year ahead. But the level of the rebound is unclear.