Walmart has launched Better Care Services, a digital platform designed to expand access to affordable healthcare services and wellness products. The platform connects customers with third-party providers for urgent care and behavioral health services, as well as LillyDirect, according to…

Telehealth use in rural areas was associated with a higher likelihood of patients utilizing preventive care, according to research in the American Journal of Managed Care. The sample for the Jan. 6 study, which was conducted by researchers at payer…

Houston Methodist is among the investors in an $80 million funding round for ambient AI company Apella. The eight-hospital system joined the series B investment, which was led by venture capital firm HighlandX, after deploying the startup’s machine learning and…

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Health has partnered with iScribeHealth to provide ambient AI scribing capabilities to its clinicians. The 60-plus hospital system selected the vendor because of its “deep integration” with EHR vendor Athenahealth, customization potential, and track record across multiple…

OpenAI has launched OpenAI for Healthcare, a suite of AI products aimed at supporting clinical and administrative work at hospitals and health systems. Here are eight things to know about OpenAI for Healthcare: The launch of OpenAI for Healthcare follows…

Telehealth investments are a key component of many states’ plans for their Rural Health Transformation Program initiatives, but the potential expiration of the pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities could throw a wrench in those strategies.  Oklahoma Hospital Association President and CEO Rich…

As AI accelerates across healthcare, some CIOs are deliberately slowing things down. At South Shore Health, based in South Weymouth, Mass., the challenge isn’t a lack of interest in AI — it’s managing the volume of ideas, tools and requests…

Former Jefferson Health CEO Stephen Klasko, MD, and Providence CEO emeritus Rod Hochman, MD, have joined the governance and advisory ranks of AmplifyMD. Dr. Klasko has been appointed to the board of directors, and Dr. Hochman has joined as a…

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health is migrating its entire technology infrastructure to the cloud through a partnership with Amazon Web Services. The health system will transition its applications, data and IT environments from traditional data centers to AWS, with the migration…

New York City-based Mount Sinai’s Tisch Cancer Center has launched a new AI platform designed to help more cancer patients across its health system find and enroll in clinical trials. The platform, called PRISM, uses an oncology-specific large language model…