Innovation

Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health is reporting strong results, including no patient deaths or healthcare-acquired infections, from its first year of hospital at home. Here are five things to know from a June 1 news release: 1. Launched in April 2025,…

Health systems have spent the past two years stress-testing ambient AI scribes, but isolating return on investment has remained difficult due to many overlapping initiatives and a lack of clean attribution paths. Agentic AI is shifting that calculus. When an…

Healthcare AI is leaving its experimental phase behind — most organizations are already using it, and 43% are piloting or testing agentic AI. There are numerous success stories where healthcare organizations deployed AI in pilots or applied AI in a…

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente Ventures is furthering its investment in digital platform Garner Health, joining a $100 million series E funding round for the care navigation startup. Garner Health uses a proprietary dataset of over 60 billion medical records to…

University Hospitals in Cleveland is partnering with Creative Destruction Lab and Case Western Reserve University to launch a healthcare innovation program designed to help startups test and scale technologies within a real clinical environment. The initiative, called CDL-Cleveland, will host…

From increased reliance on enterprise platforms to deploying AI and virtual reality, health systems recently launched or deepened several relationships with Big Tech companies. Here are 10 collaborations Becker’s reported on in the past month: 1. Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health…

Cleveland-based MetroHealth System plans to deploy smart technology at 500 patient rooms across five hospitals. The public, safety-net health system intends to bring Artisight’s virtual nursing, virtual sitting and AI-powered fall monitoring and voice-command capabilities to its new Glick Center…

Medicaid recipients who received hospital-at-home care in Massachusetts had strong outcomes, a new study found. Here are eight things to know from the May study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: 1. Researchers studied 906 acute hospital care…

Stanford Health Care’s hospital-at-home program was never supposed to look like a traditional hospital-at-home program. California regulations prevented the health system from fully operating under CMS’ Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver model, forcing leaders to rethink how care could…

Health system leverages virtual sitting success as strategic foundation for comprehensive virtual care transformation NOBLESVILLE, Ind. – [May 19th, 0800 ET] – Collette Health, ranked #1 in the 2025 and 2026 Best in KLAS Virtual Sitting & Nursing category, today…