New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System is debuting a digital technology to assist eye surgeons during glaucoma and other ophthalmic procedures. The tool was developed by Sean Ianchulev, MD, director of ophthalmic innovation and technology at New York Eye…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on April 9 announced the first rollout of tools aimed at building a modern digital health ecosystem, marking an early step in the agency’s push to modernize how patients access and share healthcare…
The FDA is challenging health tech innovators to design medical devices that can support patients in the home after a hospital stay to prevent readmissions. The READI-Home (aka Reducing Readmissions through Device Innovation for the Home) Innovation Challenge launched April…
Cleveland Clinic has named three startup companies to its latest Quantum Innovation Catalyzer Program cohort to support research into how quantum computing could advance healthcare and life sciences. The program selected EntangleBio, Polaris Quantum Biotech and Singularity Quantum from a…
Telehealth nurses and virtual nurses are the top two roles chief nursing officers are looking to fill in 2026, Wolters Kluwer reported. The survey of 150 hospital and health system leaders defined telehealth nurses as providing clinical and real-time audio/video…
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About one-third of Americans say they get health information from social media, while a smaller but growing share turn to artificial intelligence chatbots, according to an April 7 analysis from Pew Research Center. The findings, based on a survey of…
The technology is arriving faster than most health systems can evaluate it. Artificial intelligence tools, vendors and platforms are flooding the market, each promising to solve the problems that have defined American healthcare for decades — workforce shortages, administrative burden,…
Dayton, Ohio-based Premier Health is scaling two clinical decision-support tools. UpToDate Expert AI combines evidence-based clinical information with advanced AI and is the only AI clinical reference tool approved by the five-hospital system’s AI governance committee, according to an April…
The state of Rhode Island is allocating nearly a quarter of its Rural Health Transformation Program funding to technology and innovation initiatives. Gov. Dan McKee submitted a budget amendment to dedicate $16.7 million for rural health IT modernization for hospitals…
Innovation in healthcare has long suffered from a specific organizational failure: the people closest to the problems are rarely the ones empowered to solve them. A growing number of health system leaders are concluding that this isn’t just a missed…