In nearly every conversation I have with health system leaders, scale is part of the agenda. They are trying to reduce siloed point solutions, simplify increasingly complex technology environments, and extend successful capabilities across hospitals, regions and service lines. Yet…
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Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System made a strategic investment in PartsSource, deepening an existing partnership with the healthcare technology platform. PartsSource, headquartered in Hudson, Ohio, operates an enterprise platform that unifies parts sourcing, service contracts, asset intelligence and workforce capacity…
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has become the first health system in the U.S. to use Q-rounds, a real-time rounds coordination platform, in adult inpatient units and intensive care units. Novant Health first launched Q-rounds in its neonatal intensive care unit,…
The Department of Veterans Affairs deployed its Oracle Health EHR at three VA hospitals in Indiana on Aug. 22. The go-live covered the Northern Indiana Health Care System’s facilities in Fort Wayne and Marion, and the Richard L. Roudebush VA…
Health system IT departments saw a wave of outsourcing, targeted layoffs, leadership churn and a competing push toward retention in 2026, even as surveys show the teams left behind are stretched thin and struggling to fill the roles they need…
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Two-thirds of hospital IT teams are strained or in constant “firefighting” mode, according to a new report — and even fully staffed departments aren’t immune. The Aug. 18 report from networking-as-a-service provider Nile surveyed more than 300 IT leaders, C-suite…
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has raised the ceiling on its Oracle Health EHR contract to $26.9 billion, according to an award notice published Aug. 19 on SAM.gov. The VA awarded the modification, valued at $16.9 billion, on Aug.…
Hackensack Meridian Health’s path to becoming the first health network in the nation to earn The Joint Commission’s Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare Certification began years before the accrediting organization launched the program. The health system announced the certification…
Dartmouth Health has begun discussions to sunset its Tele-ICU and Tele-ED telehealth services, affecting 13 hospitals in New Hampshire and Vermont, citing unsustainable costs without external funding support. Like other regional and national health systems, Dartmouth Health said it faces…
Healthcare organizations have invested heavily in digital transformation, yet clinicians and patients still encounter fragmented experiences every day. The problem is rarely a lack of technology. More often, it is that individual technologies were selected to solve individual problems without sufficient consideration…