CommonSpirit Health is expanding its AI strategy through a new partnership with Midstream Health, a San Francisco-based financial technology company backed by Andreessen Horowitz and CommonSpirit Ventures. Chicago-based CommonSpirit will implement Midstream’s AI-powered financial operations platform, beginning with integration into…
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NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue has been awarded $100,000 to develop and implement a program focused on emergency preparedness. The funding, provided by the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will support…
Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham is entering its next phase of growth for its hospital-at-home program after CMS extended the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver through September 2030, giving health systems long-sought regulatory certainty. Since 2022, Mass General Brigham’s…
While 76% of CIOs say application rationalization is “critical,” only 1 in 5 has a program in place, a survey of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives members found. Meanwhile, more than a third of CIOs call app optimization a…
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente Ventures and Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy have invested in care navigation startup Garner Health as part of a $118 million funding round. Trained on over 320 million patient records, the company’s employer-based, AI-powered platform offers physician rankings…
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Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital plans to host a ribbon-cutting Feb. 11 to celebrate the grand opening of its new 32,000-square-foot innovation center. The facility, located in the city’s Ybor City neighborhood, will house the health system’s innovation, IT and analytics…
The American Hospital Association has named WVU Medicine Potomac Valley Hospital in Keyser, W.Va., as the 2026 recipient of its new Rural Hospital Excellence in Innovation Award. The award will be presented at the 39th annual AHA Rural Health Care…
UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., will begin accepting admissions to its hospital-at-home program Feb. 4 after pausing new admissions during a partial government shutdown, the health system confirmed to Becker’s. The health system stopped accepting new hospital-at-home patients…
York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health is migrating its entire technology infrastructure to the cloud through a partnership with Amazon Web Services, a move that will help the health system build a stronger technology foundation. “This is part of a much bigger…
Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare President and CEO Jeffrey Flaks has been named Press Ganey’s inaugural HX26 Innovator of the Year, an award recognizing healthcare executives who embed innovation into daily operations. Introduced in 2026, the Innovator of the Year award honors…