New Brunswick, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is debuting a preventive cardiology program in partnership with Newark, N.J.-based Rutgers Health and West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health. The initiative will integrate preventive cardiology, cardiac genetics and sports cardiology into a…
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Starting specialty therapy can involve navigating as many as nine separate platforms.For health systems, medical centers and hospital pharmacies, that fragmentation slows treatment initiation and complicates coordination across stakeholders. In oncology, even small delays can carry significant clinical and operational…
Apr 1, 2026 11:00 PM - 12:00 PM CDT
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- Miranda Delatore, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Vice President, Product, CoverMyMeds
- Molly M. Brady, RN, BSN, Director of Customer Success, Ontada
- Jakob Emerson, Managing Editor, Becker’s Healthcare
Behavioral health can no longer function as a crisis-only service line. Health systems are confronting the limits of episodic models that intervene too late, fragment care and strain emergency departments. As value-based expectations grow, leaders are redesigning behavioral health to…
Mar 24, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
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- Scott Domingue, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer, Texas Health Resources
- Tami Lew-Ahrendt, MA CCT, PHR, SHRM-CP, President and Chief Executive Officer, CenterPointe
- Laura Bauer, VP Strategy, Iris Telehealth
Brainbridge, Ga.-based Memorial Hospital and Manor has opened a cardiac and pulmonary rehab center, The Post-Searchlight reported Feb. 26. The center began offering pulmonary services at the end of 2025 and will open its cardiac services in March. It will…
District of Columbia-based Children’s National Hospital is opening a research institute within its Heart and Lung Center thanks to philanthropic contributions of over $12 million. The Heart Research Institute will focus its investigational efforts on earlier detection, better treatment and…
Cleveland-based University Hospitals had a problem. Its structural heart program was so successful that it was becoming congested, making it difficult to get patients the procedures they needed. It’s a common predicament among heart programs that provide complex procedures at…
How addressing unnecessary device alarms and managing them away from the bedside can help patients heal and nurses focus Hospital noise levels have skyrocketed since the 1960s, turning patient rooms — especially at night — into spaces of fragmented sleep…
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Most health care organizations struggle with fragmented systems that make it difficult to share patient information and operate efficiently. Optum Health faced this challenge head-on — transforming dozens of standalone EHR systems into a single enterprise platform. This transformation unified…
Mar 25, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Jonathan Cooper, Vice President, Provider Technology Consulting, Optum consulting
- Lucas Ladden, Vice President, Practice Innovation, Strategy, and Operations, Optum Health
Orlando-based AdventHealth Transplant Institute has successfully completed two new transplant procedures. The institute’s surgeons completed its first living donor liver transplant as part of a newly established program, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. This first procedure involved…
Clinicians at Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist became the first to use a combined pump and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) strategy to stabilize the heart of a patient early in pregnancy. The 35-year-old patient was traveling abroad on…