Oracle Health’s month was dominated by its expanding federal footprint — a bigger VA contract and three more medical center go-lives — alongside a new AI-powered patient portal and continued fallout from last year’s Cerner data breach. Here are four…
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Bill Gates says AI should not be allowed to deliver a terminal diagnosis to a patient, even though the technology is fully capable of doing so. In an Aug. 25 blog post, the Microsoft co-founder proposed a category of work…
Healthcare IT teams may be stuck in “firefighting” mode for reasons that go beyond burnout, as CIOs point to an expanding mix of upgrades, cybersecurity demands, AI projects and operational work that is increasingly outpacing their capacity. A recent report…
ECRI, a global patient safety nonprofit organization, is asking providers and health systems to report any incident where an AI-enabled tool may have contributed to an error or introduced risk in care delivery. The company has expanded its problem reporting…
Most health systems don’t have an AI problem; they have an operationalization problem. Underneath that operationalization problem are two journeys running at once. The technology journey (the platform, the data pipelines, the evaluation infrastructure) is, relatively speaking, the tractable one.…
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said last summer he wanted every American using a wearable health device within four years. A year on, tracking that goal doesn’t appear to have been part of the plan, and the concrete federal…
CMS awarded Alaska $160 million through the Rural Health Transformation Program, funding 142 projects to expand access to rural healthcare statewide. The funding package includes $6.5 million to bring the first robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery program to Southern Southeast Alaska,…
Epic doesn’t just want to sell health systems software anymore — it wants to staff their IT departments, too. That’s the idea behind Epic Rangers, a new long-term staffing program the EHR giant unveiled at last week’s Users Group Meeting.…
Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health’s Hospital at Home program has provided hospital-level care to more than 1,000 patients in the Richmond region since launching in 2023. The program, run through VCU Medical Center, delivers acute inpatient care directly to patients’ homes.…
In June 2025, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a House panel he wanted every American using a wearable health device within four years, and said the agency was preparing “one of the biggest advertising campaigns in HHS history”…