CVS Health President and CEO Karen Lynch is out at the company amid Friday’s release of preliminary financial guidance for the third quarter that fell short of Wall Street forecasts. Lynch stepped down from her position per agreement with the company’s board of directors, according to CVS Health.

Data is the lifeblood of AI, said Sundar Shenbagam, chief technology officer at Edifecs. The challenge is having a uniform way to collect the data and maintain it to make sure it remains secure. Once that’s established, data can be managed to come up with an AI model that automates some of the numerous time-consuming payer functions. […]

Despite challenges, healthcare executive pay increased 4.6% this year, on par with the 4.4% growth rate seen last year, though executives at the system level saw greater gains as compared to subsidiary hospital executives, according to SullivanCotter’s