Technology & AI

Jeff Flaks doesn’t lead with the hard stuff. He knows it’s there — the reimbursement pressure, the public policy uncertainty, the compounding financial strain bearing down on health systems across the country. The CEO of Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare, system spanning…

Healthcare leaders are moving quickly on AI — but many believe the biggest risk isn’t that the technology falls short. It’s that organizations overestimate what AI can do on its own and underestimate what it takes to make it work…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has developed an automated document referral system to triage patient referrals with generative AI. The health system previously received referrals by fax and had to process them by hand. The tool flags urgent cases, causing care…

Boston Children’s Hospital is shortening what could be a weekslong process of identifying similar patients by using AI to locate “clinical doppelgangers.” The pediatric health system recently built a digital tool that allows cardiac ICU providers to surface past Boston…

Armed with a new $100 million donation, UT Health Austin (Texas) leaders told Becker’s they are well on their way to creating an “AI-native” health system. Nvidia investor and board member Tench Coxe and his wife, Simone, gave the unrestricted…

Chicago-based Rush University System for Health is teaming up with Amazon One Medical to boost access to its virtual — and in-person — specialty care. The three-hospital system started working with the tech giant’s hybrid primary care company Jan. 1,…