HITshow Daily: September 23, 2025 (Tuesday)

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Today on HITshow:

Banner Health expands its ambulatory footprint, Glenn Medical Center shuts its doors, new partnerships reshape digital health and benefits, hospitals face fresh cybersecurity hits, and the pharma race in obesity heats up with Pfizer’s 7.3 billion dollar move and a biomimetic GLP-1 launch.

HOST: STEVE DAILY

📍 Providers — Teresa Vaughn
Banner Health rolls out “Health Center Plus” outpatient hubs, starting in Scottsdale, to expand value-based primary care and ambulatory growth.

📍 Rural Health — Logan Stokes
Glenn Medical Center in California will close its ER on September 30th and shut the full hospital on October 21st, leaving residents with long travel times for emergency care.

📍 Innovation & Partnerships — Nate Collier
Sidecar Health joins forces with Carrum Health to expand bundled Centers of Excellence access, while Glooko acquires Monarch Medical to bring its diabetes platform into hospitals.

📍 Cybersecurity & Privacy — Anika Shah
Sturgis Hospital in Michigan discloses breaches affecting 78,000 patients, and the New York Blood Center notifies 194,000 people after a major data exposure.

📍 Pharma & Life Sciences — Jade Romero
Pfizer acquires Metsera for up to 7.3 billion dollars to enter the obesity market, as Evolv debuts a biomimetic GLP-1 oral supplement for natural weight management.

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