The next major health system CIO opening already has a date attached to it. Paola Arbour will retire as CIO of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare at the end of 2026, according to an April 9 SEC filing. Ms. Arbour, who has…
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Pittsburgh-based UPMC has invested in VeloSource, a locum tenens staffing firm that has long supplied the health system with contingent clinicians. The investment came through UPMC Enterprises, the system’s innovation arm. VeloSource said Oct. 14 that it is the first…
AI documentation and billing tools are driving up healthcare costs without improving patient outcomes, according to an Oct. 14 report from the Peterson Health Technology Institute. The analysis found that under current fee-for-service incentives, administrative AI used for documentation, coding,…
The American Medical Association released a governance framework Oct. 13 for agentic AI that takes on clinical functions. The framework says an AI system’s clinical authority must be earned through evidence and maintained through ongoing performance. The AMA said an…
Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health South Florida has received a $1 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to support its healthcare technology innovation fellowship for another five years. The funding, announced Oct. 13, includes a…
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Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has embedded OpenEvidence’s AI clinical decision-support platform in its Epic EHR, giving physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other clinicians systemwide access at the point of care. Clinicians have been able to launch OpenEvidence directly from Epic since Oct.…
Most health systems adopting AI are layering new tools onto hospitals, workflows and IT platforms built decades earlier. The University of Texas at Austin is trying something few organizations get the chance to do: design an academic medical center around…
Technology companies and investors have been communicating directly with federal health officials through a CMS-run Slack workspace as the Trump administration advances efforts to expand AI-powered health applications and access to medical records, according to an Oct. 9 investigation by…
At a number of health systems, the executive in charge of IT no longer carries the CIO title. Some organizations have elevated their CIO into a broader digital or technology role or split the job between two leaders. The most…
Agents and AI are on every vendor’s banner these days, Availity’s Sean Barrett observed — yet getting payer data into the workflows those agents run remains the hard part. During a featured session sponsored by Availity at Becker’s 11th Annual…