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The Department of Health and Human Services expanded its health tech ecosystem initiative, adding new voluntary pledges covering medical price transparency, clinical trial matching, patient scheduling and software-based care access, Nextgov/FCW reported July 28. Among the additions: pledges targeting population…
Health systems are expanding partnerships with Big Tech companies as they race to deploy AI, modernize data infrastructure and improve care coordination. Here are seven collaborations involving Amazon, Microsoft and Google reported on in the past month: 1. UTHealth Houston…
Brentwood, Tenn.-based Ardent Health has surpassed 1 million patient encounters supported by Ambience Healthcare’s ambient AI solution. Ardent-affiliated clinicians now use Ambience in 87% of ambulatory encounters across specialties, well above the 40% to 45% industry benchmark cited in peer-reviewed…
Two health systems have received CMS approval to add new hospitals to their hospital-at-home programs so far in 2026. The Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, which lets approved hospitals deliver inpatient-level care to eligible Medicare patients in their homes,…
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WellSpan Health has completed its migration to Amazon Web Services. The York, Pa.-based health system moved more than 300 clinical applications and 7.5 petabytes of clinical and non-clinical data, including its full Epic EHR environment, off data center infrastructure and…
Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health’s $1.5 billion Pearl innovation district has already generated $224 million in economic impact and 2,270 jobs in its first year alone. The district, which opened June 5, 2025, also produced $9.8 million in tax revenue for…
Rockville Centre, N.Y.-based Catholic Health and GE HealthCare have signed a 10-year, approximately $500 million strategic partnership, known as a Care Alliance, to modernize imaging and diagnostic technology across the six-hospital system. The agreement, unveiled July 16, will add more…
San Francisco-based Bunkerhill Health raised $55 million in Series B funding July 16 to expand its Carebricks agentic AI platform — bringing total funding to $55 million across its seed, Series A and Series B rounds, according to a news…
Ask a health system CIO which of their peers does technology best, and most have an answer ready. Ask them to size up their own budgets against the industry, or to name the executive title healthcare could live without, and…