Optum is closing a plant in Ohio, laying off 129 employees, according to a May 16 letter from Optum to the Rapid Response Program Administrator in that state. Optum gave the mandated WARN notice, the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.

Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic and St. Louis-based Mercy have formed a partnership in which the two organizations will de-identify patient data as they search for new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent disease.

Where possible, Cedars-Sinai likes to look for solutions within existing platforms, such as using Epic’s In-basket message-response technology, which queues up a draft to edit and send, says CIO Craig Kwiatkowski.

President Biden’s Executive Order on AI released last fall is one of the broadest steps ever taken on AI safety and security, said Jennifer Walsh, director of Public Affairs at Foley & Lardner. It has national security implications as well as patient and data security implications. Some have complained that the EO lacks teeth.

Ascension is facing two class action lawsuits for the May 8 ransomware attack that reportedly continues to disrupt operations due to disconnection from the Epic EHR and is causing long ER wait times for some of the health system’s 140 hospitals.

Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center have announced a gift of $100 million from the Jean and Mack Pogue family in support of the new $5 billion Dallas pediatric campus that was unveiled earlier this year. The gift from the Pogue Foundation is one of only four $100 million philanthropic gifts ever publicly announced […]

These platforms have revolutionized the way physicians look at medical education in clinical practice, says Dr. Reza Ryan Sadeghian, principal health IT strategist at MITConn Consulting.

Christopher Kunney won a 2024 HIMSS Changemaker award as advocacy chair for the HIMSS Georgia chapter and much more, including being involved in the HIMSS Health Equity Policy Task Force, the YMCA and Carry Meds that supplies drugs and supplies to West Africa.  

U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Dr. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) have introduced legislation, the Pay PCPs Act, to better support and improve pay for high-quality primary care providers by reforming how they get paid through Medicare. The lawmakers also released a Request for Information so the healthcare industry could weigh in on the best methods […]

Babyscripts, a virtual maternity care program for managing obstetrics, is collaborating with Lyft Healthcare to provide sponsored rides to and from doctor appointments for transportation-insecure maternity patients via Lyft Pass. The collaboration is supported by grant funding awarded to Babyscripts by Lyft Healthcare, and will aid maternity patients in attending care appointments, regardless of risk, […]