At the opening keynote of Becker’s 11th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference in Chicago, two health system technology leaders set up the argument that would carry through the rest of the week: The hardest problems facing…
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Technology companies are continuing to expand their healthcare footprint through artificial intelligence, EHR integrations, cybersecurity initiatives and new clinical uses. Here are five Big Tech healthcare developments Becker’s has reported on in September:
The pressure on health system leaders to move quickly on artificial intelligence has rarely been more acute. Vendor pipelines are full, board-level expectations are rising and new tools arrive weekly. Liz Popwell, system vice president of strategy and international at…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is licensing its internally developed workforce forecasting technology to Trusted Health, which plans to make the tool available to other hospitals and health systems. Mayo’s CareCast technology uses historical staffing information, patient volume trends and operational…
As health systems push artificial intelligence from pilots into everyday operations, a new type of engineer is moving closer to the clinical front lines. OpenAI and Microsoft are hiring forward-deployed engineers specifically for healthcare work, while Chicago-based Rush University Medical…
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Cleveland Clinic is partnering with AI automation company Luminai to automate complex administrative workflows across the health system. The health system will initially use Luminai’s technology to automate the processing of external referrals, according to a Sept. 9 news release.…
A group of Democratic lawmakers is asking the Trump administration to suspend a Consumer Product Safety Commission program that collects identifiable health data from Americans who visit emergency rooms, KFF Health News reported Sept. 8. Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts…
AI-powered referral management company Tennr has named two major healthcare heavyweights as industry advisors: Toby Cosgrove, MD, former president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, and Cindy Hundorfean, former president and CEO of Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network. Both advisors will work…
Mayo Clinic’s AI chief sees its partnership with Microsoft as a chance to do something the health system’s growing collection of AI point solutions cannot: learn from the whole patient. Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo and Microsoft announced June 2 that they…
Artificial intelligence is reshaping health IT at a pace that many healthcare organizations are struggling to match. From ambient documentation and clinical decision support to agentic AI that can act inside the EHR, the tools available to clinicians and administrators…