Innovation

Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health is expanding its innovation footprint with a new office inside the 16 Tech Innovation District, a move aimed at supporting entrepreneurs and startups developing clinical solutions. The new office, located in a startup garage bay…

St. Louis-based Ascension and Oracle are continuing their partnership to advance AI and other healthcare technologies, the Nashville Business Journal reported. The 121-hospital system and software giant are connecting Ascension’s EHR to its enterprise resource planning system to lower costs,…

Improving access to care and boosting patient and provider experience via digital — with and without AI — were among the main talking points at this year’s Becker’s Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference. Here are five key…

Hospitals are full of improvised fixes — work-arounds nurses, therapists and other staff members invent to make a task safer or faster. At Radnor, Pa.-based Main Line Health, those solutions are coming out of the shadows. Through a program that…

Pathologist shortage and recruitment, lab competitiveness and AI algorithms drive digital pathology adoption In the most traditional definition of return-on-investment, Sam Terese, former CEO and president of Alverno Laboratories, would say that his company isn’t experiencing a strict apples-to-apples financial…

Radnor, Pa.-based Main Line Health is helping nurses and other frontline workers bring medical devices from concept to commercialization through a partnership with the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research and affiliated ventures. The health system created an innovation pipeline that…

Healthcare leaders are embracing automation to assist with everything from appointment scheduling and patient check-in processes to billing and more. To learn more about how intelligent automation and agentic AI in call centers are enhancing patient access and reducing administrative…

UW Medicine’s Harborview Medical Center in Seattle recently retrofitted hospital rooms with smart technology, and the hospital has already observed accelerated recovery for spine patients. Those results stem from a pilot in Harborview’s acute care and intensive care units. Most…

The administrative burden of utilization review processes like prior authorizations and concurrent review has long been a thorn in the side of healthcare providers. While prior authorizations have garnered significant attention in recent years, concurrent review is an equally important,…

Mass General Brigham, based in Somerville, Mass., is betting that some of the next big breakthroughs in health equity may not come from inside hospitals. This week, the health system named the inaugural winner of its Kraft Prize for Excellence…