Phoenix-based Banner Health has completed over 50 total artificial heart implantation procedures — more than any center worldwide since 2022, according to an April 27 system news release. Banner’s reputation for having one of the busiest total artificial heart programs…
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Many DSOs have already invested in automation. Few have figured out how to manage it at scale. What worked across five locations often breaks at 50. As multi-site organizations grow, inconsistent workflows across patient and payer payment processes, limited visibility…
Jun 17, 2026 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
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- Manu Chaudhry, DDS
- Camie Worley
- Haim Haviv, MBA
- James Swan, MBA
- Ray Caruso
Eugene Braunwald, MD, often referred to as the “father of modern cardiology” has died at age 96. Dr. Braunwald has more than 1,000 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and his research expanded knowledge of heart disease, particularly in congestive heart disease,…
Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke’s University Health Network is providing its cardiologists with a personal virtual care team. The program is launching with 24 cardiologists, who will each have a virtual team consisting of a nurse practitioner, medical assistant and registered…
Controlled substance waste is one of the most overlooked cost centers in hospital pharmacy. Each waste event represents not just a lost dose, but lost nursing time, compliance overhead and real diversion risk. A recent multi-site study quantified the problem:…
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- Matthew Gimbar, PharmD
- Paul Stranges, PharmD, MSHI, BCACP, AE-C, FCCP
- John Hertig, PharmD, MS, CPPS, FASHP, FFIP
UTHealth Houston established a department of cardiology at McGovern Medical School, effective May 1. The department is led by founding chair Biswajit Kar, MD, and becomes the school’s 24th academic department. Faculty, including more than 70 physicians and scientists, will…
Across hospitals, patient flow challenges are playing out daily — delayed discharges, constrained capacity and growing pressure on emergency departments. These issues rarely start in one department. They reflect how effectively patients move across the entire system, from admission through…
Pharmacy is no longer a cost center defending its budget. It is an enterprise lever, and the executives running it are being asked to behave — and be staffed — accordingly. At the 2026 CPO Summit, the chief pharmacy officers…
AI is a people-and-process story — not a tech one. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting, the CIOs, CDOs, and CMIOs running Cleveland Clinic, Penn Medicine, Jefferson Health, Prisma Health, Northwell Health, Allina Health, Ochsner Health and CommonSpirit told each other…
The CEOs named the mandate. The CFOs are building the operating answer. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting, the CFOs running Cleveland Clinic, Ascension, Kaiser Permanente, Sentara Health, Allina Health, NYC Health + Hospitals, UChicago Medicine AdventHealth and Temple Health told…