Manual inventory tracking in operating rooms is time-consuming and risky — leading to stockouts, waste and compliance headaches. This was the reality at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, where pharmacy teams spent nearly seven hours daily restocking…
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Designing Safer Workplaces for Nurses: A New Era of Accountability, Empathy, and Real-Time Awareness This webinar explores how hospitals are rethinking workplace safety to better support and retain their nursing staff. We’ll dive into the role of real-time technology in preventing incidents, reducing burnout, and creating a culture of trust. Learn how health systems…
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Varoon Kumar
Senior Director of Sales, Axon
Michael Reynolds
Corporate Security Executive, Fairview Health
California’s insurance commissioner has issued a cease and desist order against Innovative Partners for illegally acting as an insurer in the state and offering health coverage without proper certification. The state also served 10 additional cease and desist orders to…
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or CalPERS, has replaced Optum Rx as its pharmacy benefit manager with CVS Caremark. The new five-year contract begins in 2026 and will provide outpatient prescription drug benefits to 587,000 members enrolled in basic…
EmblemHealth is enlisting AI agents to help keep members cool this summer. Extreme heat is a silent killer, said Dan Knecht, MD, EmblemHealth’s chief medical officer. In New York City, where EmblemHealth is based, more than 500 people die from…
Geisinger Health Plan is eliminating nearly 100 positions as part of a restructuring program aimed at stabilizing operations. “This decision, which only impacts GHP roles, was not made lightly,” a spokesperson for the organization told Becker’s on July 15. “We…
UnitedHealth Group discretely sold stakes in some of its business units to private equity firms near the end of 2024 in an effort to extend its long-running profit streak despite mounting internal cost pressures, Bloomberg reported July 15. According to…
Here are 10 updates on UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiaries that Becker’s has reported since June 25: 1. UnitedHealth Group has engaged in an “an aggressive and wide-ranging campaign” against several groups of critics following the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian…
Humana is launching a collaboration with Epic’s MyChart, allowing members to see health plan details alongside the rest of their medical information. The partnership is the first of its kind, Humana said in a July 15 news release. “This integration…
For years, health plans and provider organizations have been attempting to make value-based care work for them and their members. Yet for many, success has been elusive. Now, a new generation of technologies is helping advance value-based care by leveraging…
