The Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network has executed three grant agreements worth more than $50 million with the state to fund rural hospital technology, disease prevention and workforce initiatives. ICAHN signed the agreements with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and…
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Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy reported a 22% reduction in flowsheet documentation time per shift after rolling out Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot AI assistant to nurses, according to a Microsoft customer story published Aug. 14. Mercy piloted the ambient AI tool in a…
Wolters Kluwer Health is working with Epic to give eligible Epic customers in the U.S. turnkey access to a bundled set of drug information and patient education content delivered inside their EHR workflows, the company announced July 30. The Waltham,…
The University of Houston has established the Institute for Digital Healthcare Transformation, a cross-campus effort to push emerging technology into clinical use. The institute operates under UH Health, the university’s academic health enterprise, and draws on expertise from engineering, medicine,…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, alongside the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and international partners, released updated guidance on the minimum elements required for a software bill of materials, or SBOM. The guidance replaces minimum elements…
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New York City-based NYU Langone Health and Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute launched Solavia Decision Suite, an oncology decision support platform embedded directly in the electronic health record. The tool went live internally at NYU Langone on June 30 and is…
Since Medicare established reimbursement for remote patient monitoring (RPM), the program has helped clinicians extend care beyond the clinic, monitoring and supporting patients between office visits with the goal of improving outcomes and reducing time to goal. The fee-for-service framework…
U.S. digital health startups raised $7.4 billion across 244 deals in the first half of 2026, up from $6.4 billion in the same period last year on nearly the same number of deals. Rock Health’s H1 2026 market report, published…
A majority of clinicians continue to rely on manual workarounds and spend significant time on avoidable digital tasks despite widespread adoption of healthcare technology, according to a July 14 survey from Black Book Research. The survey included 1,919 clinicians with…
Nearly all physicians review data from consumer wearables, but few healthcare systems have incorporated that information into routine clinical care. The 2026 International Physician Survey on Consumer Wearables, conducted by the American Medical Association’s Center for Digital Health and AI and Medscape,…