Hospitals are in a bind. As workforce shortages deepen and pay pressures mount, health systems are increasingly turning to technology to help retain their nurses. Many are piloting virtual nursing initiatives, ambient documentation and other AI-enabled tools designed to ease…
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A Penn Medicine pilot demonstrated the effectiveness of treating certain patients at home instead of admitting them to the hospital. Practical alternatives to hospitalization, or Path — ran from September 2024 to June 2025 at Philadelphia-based Penn Presbyterian Medical Center,…
As health systems look to adopt ambient AI to ease nursing documentation, it can be a challenge to get nurses to verbalize tasks they are accustomed to doing in their heads. Atrium Health Union, part of Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health,…
Amazon is rolling out pharmacy kiosks at One Medical clinics that will dispense medications to patients right after their appointments. The Amazon Pharmacy kiosks are set to debut in December at One Medical locations in the Los Angeles area, including…
The CIOs of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospitals Honor Roll winners for 2025-26 have collectively been with their organizations for decades. Here are the IT chiefs at the publication’s top 10 children’s hospitals, released Oct. 7: Boston Children’s Hospital: Heather…
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Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic have invested in a $24 million funding round for augmented reality startup MediView. The company, which was founded on intellectual property developed at Cleveland Clinic, has created an FDA-cleared augmented reality and AI…
CVS Health has opened a new Workforce Innovation and Talent Center and Community Resource Center in Fort Worth, Texas. The new facilities, developed in collaboration with Fort Worth Housing Solutions, aim to build a pipeline of skilled healthcare professionals by…
Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health is expanding its innovation footprint with a new office inside the 16 Tech Innovation District, a move aimed at supporting entrepreneurs and startups developing clinical solutions. The new office, located in a startup garage bay…
St. Louis-based Ascension and Oracle are continuing their partnership to advance AI and other healthcare technologies, the Nashville Business Journal reported. The 121-hospital system and software giant are connecting Ascension’s EHR to its enterprise resource planning system to lower costs,…
Improving access to care and boosting patient and provider experience via digital — with and without AI — were among the main talking points at this year’s Becker’s Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference. Here are five key…