Boston-based Mass General Brigham is restructuring its Home Hospital program beginning in November, shifting its focus toward higher-acuity patients at its two academic medical centers as the health system looks to address emergency department overcrowding and improve the program’s long-term…
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Seattle Children’s launched the Institute for Pediatric Innovation, an organizationwide effort to accelerate pediatric innovation, on Oct. 26. Five things to know, according to the health system: 1. The institute is backed initially by a $5 million anonymous gift and…
Google’s multiagent artificial intelligence system outperformed comparison AI systems on several personal health tasks, but expert reviewers rated 17% of health summaries from one of its agents as carrying at least mild potential harm, according to a study published Oct.…
Within a day of going live at a national care organization, Evidently surfaced a decade-old CT scan. It had been scanned in from an out-of-state emergency department, and it showed a small abdominal aortic aneurysm that nobody had ever followed…
Philip Bernard, MD, usually waits until Tuesday to open his inbox. For Dr. Bernard, a pediatric intensivist who also serves as senior vice president and chief medical information officer of Dallas-based Children’s Health, that means an inbox full of clinical…
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Oracle Health and Life Sciences and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca are partnering to explore how AI can improve clinical trial recruitment, identify patients earlier and bring research insights into clinical care. The companies have signed a nonbinding term sheet outlining the…
A few years ago, companies like Amazon, Walmart and CVS Health were making ambitious moves into healthcare, promising to reshape how Americans accessed care. But after clinic closures, scaled-back expansion plans and shifting strategies, hospital innovation leaders say the disruption…
Confido Health is expanding beyond AI voice agents to build out an agentic AI operating system that can execute administrative workflows across a medical practice. The company secured a $12.5 million series A extension following its $10 million series A…
Every day, in healthcare practices across the country, calls go unanswered, appointments get missed, and revenue quietly ages into bad debt. One 100-location dental service organization recovered more than $19 million after a full analysis of its patient interactions surfaced…
The healthcare AI era has given health systems too many experiments. Moving AI from pilot to practice has become a defining challenge for digital leaders in 2026, with most organizations still working to close the gap between promising local deployments…