For Edmund Pribitkin, MD, executive vice president, chief physician executive and president of the Jefferson Medical Group at Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health, the standard response to industry headwinds — reimbursement pressure, workforce shortages, rising costs — starts with one question: Who…
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Ochsner Health has become the first health system to use Epic’s Ergo Visit, an AI-supported outpatient visit tool designed to help clinicians prepare for appointments, stay present during patient conversations and finish documentation before the visit ends. Four clinicians in…
Epic used its 2026 Users’ Group Meeting on Tuesday to detail several new and expanding AI capabilities across its EHR platform. Here are five things health system leaders should know: 1. Agent Factory lets health systems build their own AI…
Artificial intelligence tools are helping patients and physicians identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases faster, according to an Aug. 15 report from The Wall Street Journal. The report cited several cases in which AI helped care teams or patients arrive at…
Mass General Brigham launched its postsurgical Home Hospital in 2024 for patients undergoing planned, elective procedures — bariatric surgery, colorectal surgery and nonoperative complicated diverticulitis cases with predictable recovery timelines. Nearly two years later, most of the patients don’t come…
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Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Health and Providence, R.I.-based Brown University Health have expanded their use of Microsoft’s agentic AI platform. Brown University Health built more than two dozen AI agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio, including two emergency department agents embedded in…
NYU Langone launched 20 startups last year. Its next commercial product is an AI oncology tool. New York City-based NYU Langone Health’s Technology Opportunities and Ventures office, which turns the health system’s research and clinical work into commercial products, had…
Henry Ford Health and Michigan State University Health Sciences made the first investments from the Henry Ford + MSU Innovation Fund, backing early-stage companies LightHearted AI and M3D. The organizations announced the deals in a July 30 news release shared…
Health systems are moving quickly to advance their digital strategies, but a persistent gap continues to surface between what executive leadership envisions and what clinicians can realistically use. Closing that gap is increasingly what determines whether digital transformation succeeds or…
There is a remarkable thing humans do: we adapt. In our everyday lives, we spend more time managing uncertainty than we realize. Will traffic make us late? Is the package arriving today? Who’s picking up the kids? Is everyone going…