Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has selected 31 digital health companies for its largest Mayo Clinic Platform Accelerate cohort to date, including six developing AI-powered solutions to support clinicians and patient care. The companies will gain access to Mayo Clinic Platform’s…
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Walmart expanded its Better Care Services platform Oct. 26 with a healthcare store run on technology from San Francisco-based General Medicine. The expansion gives customers more third-party care options and shows estimated costs up front, all in one catalog. The…
Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health has expanded its hospital-at-home program to Baptist Medical Center South, eight months after launching it at its flagship Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville. More than 300 patients have transferred home from the two hospitals since the program…
Health systems continue to turn to Big Tech companies to move their data to the cloud, test AI in clinical settings and build guardrails around how it is used. Here are five collaborations involving Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia reported on…
The Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule Oct. 26 eliminating 14 federal health IT certification criteria and scaling back AI transparency requirements, with the agency projecting more than $1.5 billion in regulatory cost savings. The final rule,…
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The leaders of the two largest hospital EHR vendors agree that AI will remake the medical record. Where they part ways is on what that AI should be built from, who should own the data underneath it and how health…
The FDA has issued its most serious recall classification for certain hospital glucose meters after a software issue that could cause test results to be assigned to the wrong patient was linked to one serious injury. The recall affects Nova…
Ask health system CIOs which EHR task they first wanted AI to take off clinicians’ plates, and the answer was the note. In a survey released in July 2025 by CliniComp and the CHIME Foundation, 54% of CIOs said documentation…
Microsoft’s AI diagnostic system correctly diagnosed 83.2% of complex New England Journal of Medicine cases, compared with 36.1% for generalist physicians using search and reference tools, according to a study published Oct. 22 in Science. Without those tools, physicians averaged…
Ask health system technology leaders what AI can’t do, and the list keeps getting shorter. Ask what they won’t let it do, and the answers come back to two things: judgment calls and the human work of getting people to…