Category: Press Release

Brooks Rizzo, MSN, RN, has been appointed COO of North Sunflower Medical Center in Ruleville, Miss. Ms. Rizzo is also president-elect of the Medical Group Management Association of Mississippi, according to a Feb. 25 Facebook post from the hospital. She joined North Sunflower Medical Center in 2006 as a clinic registered nurse and has been […]

As health systems push digital transformation deeper into clinical operations, chief nursing information officers say the role of clinical informatics is shifting — though not always evenly — from reactive troubleshooting to proactive design. Two CNIOs described an industry in transition, one in which informatics leaders are increasingly embedded early in project planning but still […]

Health systems are strengthening their technology leadership benches, appointing new executives to lead areas like cybersecurity, innovation, digital platforms and enterprise systems. Here are the latest health IT leadership moves at hospitals and health systems, as reported by Becker’s since January: Editor’s note: This article was updated March 2. Kathy Jobes was named chief information security officer […]

Jackson-based University of Mississippi Medical Center has restored its phone service a week and a half after a ransomware attack crippled the health system’s communications. UMMC brought its phones back online March 2 and started calling back patients to reschedule appointments that were canceled because of the cyberattack. The organization reopened its outpatient clinics earlier […]

Medical staff at Coupeville, Wash.-based WhidbeyHealth have voted “no confidence” in the company providing healthcare management services to the hospital. In a Jan. 28 letter to the board of commissioners, Chief of Staff Robert Rookstool, MD, formally notified the board that the medical staff had issued a vote of no confidence in HealthTech, a hospital […]

Faye Collins, DNP, RN, has been named market chief nursing officer of UnityPoint Health-Meriter in Madison, Wis., effective March 2. Dr. Collins previously served as vice president and chief nursing officer of Advocate-Aurora Medical Center Sheboygan County (Wis.), according to a news release shared with Becker’s. UnityPoint Health-Meriter is a 419-bed community hospital and is […]

The narrative surrounding Artificial Intelligence in 2026 has reached a critical inflection point. According to Forrester’s latest “State of AI” report, while adoption rates are surging, a significant portion of organizations are trapped in a cycle of “strategic myopia.” Many organizations are successfully harvesting low-hanging productivity gains but are failing to capture the true promise […]

UnitedHealth Group is capping employee raises at 2% this year and laying off an unspecified number of workers, Bloomberg reported Feb. 27. Minnesota, the company’s home state, has not posted any relevant Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notices as of March 2, but an anonymous source confirmed the layoffs to Bloomberg. The source also […]

Novo Nordisk has partnered with Vivtex Corp. to develop next-generation oral biologic medicines for obesity, diabetes and related conditions. Under the agreement, Vivtex will license its proprietary oral drug-delivery technologies to Novo Nordisk and is eligible to receive up to $2.1 billion in upfront and milestone payments, along with tiered royalties tied to future net […]

The World Health Organization has recommended updating all three viral strains included in influenza vaccines for the Northern Hemisphere’s 2026 flu season. The changes include two influenza A strains and one influenza B strain, including a new A(H3N2) variant known as subclade K that began spreading in late 2025, according to a Feb. 27 news […]