Innovation

Interoperability has been a goal of the healthcare industry for decades, but the conversation is only now beginning to shift. The question is no longer whether systems connect; it’s whether those connections can scale, and whether they’re actually improving the…

One Medical has continually expanded its network of health system partnerships in the three-plus years since Amazon closed its $3.9 billion acquisition of the hybrid primary care company in 2023 — even as the lineup of partners has shifted. Amazon…

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare and The Pennant Group are deepening their home-based care partnership in Connecticut and plan to transition the collaboration into a unified operating entity. The move builds on a partnership launched in May 2024 between Hartford HealthCare at…

Cleveland Clinic and IBM’s Discovery Accelerator has supported more than 50 biomedical research projects in its first five years, the organizations said June 15 at the third annual Cleveland Discovery and Innovation Forum. The 10-year partnership, launched in 2021, applies…

Virtual nursing for hospital discharge was associated with sharply lower 30-day emergency department readmissions across nine hospitals in a major Southeastern U.S. health system, according to a study published in npj Digital Medicine. Researchers at the University of North Carolina…

Rural healthcare leaders are turning resource limits into a sharper lens for technology investment. As federal initiatives like the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program infuse rural health systems with new capital, the organizations seeing the most impact are not…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has established a new Office of Health Technology and Products to oversee healthcare technology modernization, digital products and platform transformation across the agency’s programs. The organizational change was approved by HHS Secretary Robert…

Duke Health has established a Nursing Innovation Fund to support nurse-led care models and help nurses develop, test and scale new ideas aimed at improving patient outcomes and strengthening the profession. The fund was created through a gift from Nancy…

Coral Gables-based Baptist Health South Florida will partner with Amazon One Medical to connect primary and specialty care across the region, effective Aug. 1. Under the agreement, patients of One Medical — Amazon’s hybrid in-person and virtual primary care company,…

Health systems have no shortage of successful AI pilots. Ambient documentation, revenue cycle automation, clinical decision support — individual use cases have delivered real results in individual departments. But translating those wins into organization-wide results has proven far more difficult.…