More than 230 healthcare organizations, including 35 health systems, are urging CMS not to finalize proposed 2027 restrictions on remote patient monitoring. The Sept. 14 sign-on letter, organized by the Alliance for Connected Care, represents an expansion from an earlier…

Health system CIOs have spent the past several years building AI programs around clinicians. Governance committees, intake dashboards, open office hours, ambient tools — the clinical side of the house has been the primary beneficiary of digital investment. For Donna…

“AI could kill all humans.” “AI could cause human extinction.” “AI is moving too fast to control.” Maybe. But I’m a physician, and I spend my days worrying about a threat to human life that isn’t theoretical. It is already…

Donna Roach has a simple way to measure whether a health system CIO has built the influence the role now requires. “The most successful CIO will be the one who has the relationships with their executive peers,” said Ms. Roach,…

More than 18 months into building AI agents, Rush's CIO says the tooling to model what they cost does not exist — so the control has to be the workforce.

In tandem with AI’s effect on the healthcare workforce, hospital executives are recalibrating how employees learn to do their jobs and what that shift demands of their leaders. Tim Calahan, founder and managing member of EHC Consulting and former chief…

As healthcare leaders assess the forces reshaping the revenue cycle workforce, connecting with younger employees is an increasingly valuable skill set. Some of those employees, as Mayo Clinic’s Nikki Harper pointed out during Becker’s IT + Revenue Cycle Conference, are…

East Adams Rural Healthcare, a Ritzville, Wash.-based rural emergency hospital, has selected Azalea Health as its new EHR vendor.  East Adams moved off its previous enterprise EHR platform after determining the system was too complex and costly for an organization…

Madison, Wis.-based UW Health is reviewing more than 100 AI features arriving through an upgrade to one of its core technology platforms, illustrating the growing governance demands health systems face as AI capabilities become embedded in enterprise software. Frank Liao,…

Time and data firm Statista recognized 500 companies across six categories in their 2026 World’s Top HealthTech Companies list published Sept. 16. In partnership with data firm Statista, Time determined the World’s Top HealthTech Companies of 2026 list by evaluating…