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Renton, Wash.-based Providence's CIO, BJ Moore, has left the health system after six years in the role.

The shortage of pediatric cancer drugs is a growing concern for families and healthcare providers, with critical medications, like injectable methotrexate and leucovrin, increasingly hard to obtain for children diagnosed with leukemia, USA Today repo

Lynette Chappell Williams, vice president and chief diversity officer of Penn State Health, will retire Nov. 29. 

A new postpartum, at-home blood pressure monitoring program at M Health Fairview reduced postpartum readmissions due to hypertension by 69%.

The landscape of community healthcare in the U.S. has been changing rapidly as major drugstore chains like Rite Aid, Walgreens and CVS announced widespread closures leading to widespread "pharmacy deserts," CNBC reported Oct. 11. 

Internal medicine represents the largest primary care specialty, with 41.4% of all primary care physicians practicing in this field, according to new data from KFF.