Cleveland Clinic has rolled out AI-powered scribes to help reduce physicians’ documentation workload, with 4,000 of its physicians already using the technology, Fast Company reported June 26. The health system is using an AI scribe developed by Ambience. Rohit Chandra,…

AI agents are all the rage – and this time healthcare isn’t far behind other industries in adoption. Healthcare traditionally trailed other industries in digital transformation and hospitals resist change, even with incentives. But this time, with big challenges ahead,…

Lawmakers sparred June 26 over how to pay for digital health tools during a House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing, Politico reported. Here are four things to know:

Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Health has built AI to filter patient portal messages and respond to patients. Clinicians from the health system worked with Dartmouth computer science researchers and a Geisel School of Medicine associate professor to develop PortalPal, which uses…

Optum has launched a new AI marketplace aimed at helping healthcare organizations more easily adopt AI tools. The platform connects healthcare providers, payers and developers with curated AI products designed for clinical and administrative use, according to a June 25…

Little Rock-based Arkansas Children’s has adopted a platform from digital health company Caregility that will enable virtual care in its neonatal intensive care unit. The two organizations developed the connected device collaboratively to support specialist consultations, teleresuscitation and telesimulation efforts.…

San Francisco-based SuperDial has raised $15 million in debt and equity funding to scale its AI platform, which automates administrative phone calls between providers and insurers. The series A round was led by SignalFire with participation from Slow Ventures, BoxGroup…

City of Hope, based in Duarte, Calif., has developed a proprietary AI platform called HopeLLM. The platform combines commercial and open-source models to assist physicians in summarizing patients’ medical histories, matching them with clinical trials, and extracting data for research,…

Kaiser Permanente Ventures is among the investors in an AI startup focused on medication management. The venture capital arm of the Oakland, Calif.-based health system participated in a $30 million series C funding round June 24 for Arine. The company…

Tampa General Hospital is streamlining nurse workflows with ambient listening technology in the health system’s latest move to ease clinicians’ administrative burden. The health system incorporated Microsoft’s ambient listening technology for nurses into the Epic Rover mobile nursing application to…