AI won’t take the place of radiologists but will help fill gaps amid an ongoing shortage of the providers, a health system CEO told Becker’s. David Lubarsky, president and CEO of Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center Health Network, recently spoke…
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Rural health system IT leaders are bracing for financial strain tied to reimbursement cuts under HR 1, the budget reconciliation law signed by President Trump in July 2025 that includes sweeping reductions to Medicaid funding and eligibility. Early signs point…
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care is at an inflection point in how we think about applications, workflows, and the teams that support them. For years, the dominant narrative in health IT has been about cost containment: consolidating systems, reducing…
The American Medical Association is calling on federal lawmakers to enact safeguards on AI chatbots, particularly when it comes to protecting patients’ mental health. With the rapid rise of people using chatbots for behavioral and other health-related issues, the AMA…
A video game developed by Pittsburgh-based UPMC and University of Pittsburgh researchers helped emergency physicians make more accurate trauma triage decisions for severely injured older adults than standard education. The study, published April 20 in JAMA, followed 800 physicians at…
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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill to reauthorize two federal telehealth grant programs. HR 3419 amends the Public Health Service Act to continue the Telehealth Network Grant Program and the Telehealth Resource Centers through 2030, raising annual…
Most health systems have deployed an ambient AI documentation solution by now, but many leaders haven’t asked the harder question: is the tool actually generating financial returns, or simply replacing dictation? Meanwhile, payers are accelerating their own use of AI…
While telehealth has become commonplace since the pandemic, some states have adopted the technology more than others. Here is the percentage of hospitals that offer telehealth in each state, according to an April analysis by Definitive Healthcare using its proprietary…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has joined a $4.9 million seed funding round for virtual biomarker startup ViewsML. The company is developing the world’s first virtual biomarker library, using AI to extract the insights directly from pathology images to support precision…
BayCare Health System has partnered with robotics startup Rovex to pilot robotic technology aimed at supporting hospital operations and patient transport workflows at Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater, Fla. The pilot began in April and will assess how Rovex’s robotic…