October 2025

Rusty clinical skills | AI growing up so fast | AI for the malnourished | News from our industry partners ()
Medline's $50B IPO | PBM hit by ransomware attack, data trove posted online | Couple arrested for $3M Medicaid fraud ()
Community hospital thwarts ransomware attack | Pennsylvania woman accused of giving patient weight loss drug meant for animals ()
CMS taps military veteran to lead Medicaid, CHIP | Staffing agency, owner indicted for sending unlicensed CNAs to nursing home ()
AI bubble may burst | AI hype vs. hope | Agentic AI coming on strong | News from our industry partners ()
Patient shatters record: 271 days with pig kidney | Court dismisses lawsuit challenging definition of ‘doctor’ ()
ACA premiums to jump 30% | Provider Medicare participation rose 6.3% since 2013 | Malpractice case results in $3M judgment ()
Weekly Update: CMS recalls workers | Judge blocks HHS firings | HLTH news | ‘Code Black’ | Interoperability framework revealed ()
Digital Transformation: HLTH roundup | Payer, Provider unveil interoperability framework | AI-chatbot telehealth | DIY care ()
Balancing efficiency with effectiveness | ChatEHR | Inspirational AI leader | What’s new from our industry partners ()
CMS to recall 3K furloughed workers | Cyberattack sends hospital into ‘Code Black’ | $100B Medicaid tax on billionaires ()
Roundup of news from HLTH 25: New AI, data partnerships, cybersecurity and more | Nursing home cyberattack impacts 26K ()
Spending skyrockets | UnitedHealth finetunes AI claims processing | News from our industry partners ()
Rural hospital sues UnitedHealth over ‘denied, delayed’ reimbursement | Minnesota investigating use of illegal noncompetes ()
Payer and provider unveil data-sharing interoperability framework | New Mexico woman accused of impersonating an RN | more ()
Cybersecurity: Medical weed data breach | Employer benefits hack | 72% of attacks delay care | 7 hospitals divert ambulances ()
Judge blocks shutdown layoffs at HHS | Chatbot-telehealth AI earns $25M in funding | Data breach lawsuit settled for $30M ()
Weekly Update: TrumpRx goes live | Cyberattacks and delayed care | CVS buys Rite Aid prescription data | Massive strike ()
Where’s the ROI?, messaging truth check, burnout busters | News from our industry partners ()
72% of healthcare orgs report patient care delays during cyberattacks | CVS buys Rite Aid prescription data, 63 stores ()
Hurry up and slow down, AI playbook, docs over bots | The latest from our industry partners ()
46K healthcare workers strike | Johnson & Johnson to spin off $9.2B orthopedics business | ‘RN’ arrested for fraud ()
TrumpRx.gov now online as AstraZeneca signs up | Doctor sues hospital alleging it ‘lost track’ of pediatric patient, who died ()
CDC fires 1,300, rehires 700 amid shutdown chaos | HHS cuts 1,200 jobs | Microsoft releasing Harvard-backed Copilot update ()
Weekly Update: Top children’s hospitals | California passes PE law | Nobel Prizes awarded | Snapchat horror | $6.8B AI merger ()
Healthcare AI ROI | Microsoft & Google on learning curves | News from our industry partners ()
California private equity law passes | Judge cracks down on social media in Mangione trial | AI ‘manikins’ go to med school ()
Top 10 children’s hospitals | Planned Parenthood sues to block access to abortion records | DOJ: How to spot healthcare fraud ()
High-level healthcare AI kerfuffle | ARiSE wellness check | News from our industry partners ()
Nonprofit investors seek ‘checks and balances’ at UnitedHealth | Lawsuits filed after photos of patients shared on Snapchat ()
Cybersecurity: Ascension lawsuit moves forward | Medical marijuana breach | Verily whistleblower | DaVita hack ()
Healthcare data firm Press Ganey sold for $6.75B | Three scientists earn Nobel Prize for discovering immune system regulators ()
Duke Health and Aetna reach agreement | Louisiana charges California doctor with abortion crime | DIY healthcare ()
Weekly Update: TrumpRx | Judge dismisses ACA lawsuit | Medicare telehealth changes | Mangione trial | Data trackers ()
State-level regulation | A doubled budget | White House vs. CHAI | News from our industry partners ()
Judge denies injunction against new ACA enrollment rules | Chicago unveils prescription drug vending machines | more ()
Best of September: Alcohol-cancer study | Saint Mary’s wins $510M | CVS fined $949M | TrumpRx | Fake nurses | Doximity sues ()
HHS to furlough 40% of staff during shutdown | COVID-era telehealth policies expire | Nursing school sued after patient death ()
FDA seeking insider know-how | Deepfake doctors making rounds | News from our industry partners ()
Trump, Pfizer announce “TrumpRx” | Judge orders DOJ to stop tweeting about Mangione’s politics | more ()