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…
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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…
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…
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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…
As technology works its way into nearly every corner of hospital operations, health system CIOs are confronting a practical question: If an initiative touches technology, does IT have to own it? Sheri Strobel, CIO of Temple Terrace, Fla.-based Chapters Health…
A bipartisan group of 32 House members is urging CMS to reconsider its proposed remote patient monitoring restrictions in the 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The Oct. 2 letter to CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, was led by Reps. David…
Leadership changes reported by Becker’s in 2026 show some health systems adding digital oversight, data analytics and hospital administration to CIO portfolios, while one search explicitly assigns AI governance to the next IT leader. The changes take different forms. Some…