Michael Han, MD, has been named chief medical officer of AI startup Ambience Healthcare. Dr. Han most recently served as vice president and chief medical information officer of Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System. He previously worked in informatics leadership at…
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Atropos Health, a healthcare data company, has launched a medical evidence platform to support clinical decision-making and large language model training. The platform currently hosts more than 33 million evidence-based findings and is expected to grow to more than 2…
Rohit Chandra, PhD, chief digital officer at Cleveland Clinic, came to the organization from more than two decades in big tech rather than medicine or health administration. Four years into his tenure, he said the health system is working to…
OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT for Clinicians, offering free use of the tool to all verified U.S. physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists. Here are six things to know from an April 22 news release and past Becker’s reporting: 1.…
Pittsburgh-based UPMC pledged funding to three startups at a “Shark Tank”-style competition, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported April 22. Six finalists delivered their pitches to a panel that included UPMC Enterprises President Jeanne Cunicelli and “Shark Tank” judge Mark Cuban at…
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AI won’t take the place of radiologists but will help fill gaps amid an ongoing shortage of the providers, a health system CEO told Becker’s. David Lubarsky, president and CEO of Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center Health Network, recently spoke…
Rural health system IT leaders are bracing for financial strain tied to reimbursement cuts under HR 1, the budget reconciliation law signed by President Trump in July 2025 that includes sweeping reductions to Medicaid funding and eligibility. Early signs point…
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care is at an inflection point in how we think about applications, workflows, and the teams that support them. For years, the dominant narrative in health IT has been about cost containment: consolidating systems, reducing…
The American Medical Association is calling on federal lawmakers to enact safeguards on AI chatbots, particularly when it comes to protecting patients’ mental health. With the rapid rise of people using chatbots for behavioral and other health-related issues, the AMA…
A video game developed by Pittsburgh-based UPMC and University of Pittsburgh researchers helped emergency physicians make more accurate trauma triage decisions for severely injured older adults than standard education. The study, published April 20 in JAMA, followed 800 physicians at…