Rural healthcare leaders are turning resource limits into a sharper lens for technology investment. As federal initiatives like the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program infuse rural health systems with new capital, the organizations seeing the most impact are not…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has established a new Office of Health Technology and Products to oversee healthcare technology modernization, digital products and platform transformation across the agency’s programs. The organizational change was approved by HHS Secretary Robert…
Duke Health has established a Nursing Innovation Fund to support nurse-led care models and help nurses develop, test and scale new ideas aimed at improving patient outcomes and strengthening the profession. The fund was created through a gift from Nancy…
Coral Gables-based Baptist Health South Florida will partner with Amazon One Medical to connect primary and specialty care across the region, effective Aug. 1. Under the agreement, patients of One Medical — Amazon’s hybrid in-person and virtual primary care company,…
Health systems have no shortage of successful AI pilots. Ambient documentation, revenue cycle automation, clinical decision support — individual use cases have delivered real results in individual departments. But translating those wins into organization-wide results has proven far more difficult.…
The American Hospital Association is positioning technology — from EHRs to predictive analytics — as a central lever in hospitals’ push to lower healthcare costs. AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack wrote in a June 5 column that EHRs and…
Amazon One Medical has opened a new primary care office at Montefiore Einstein Advanced Care in Elmsford, N.Y. The office expands the organizations’ partnership and is designed to provide coordinated access to primary and specialty care. According to a June…
New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals has completed more than 20,000 robotic surgeries since launching its program in 2016, with the health system now performing more than 5,000 procedures annually across 19 da Vinci systems at 10 sites of…
York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health and Royal Philips announced a seven-year strategic alliance on June 4 that brings advanced imaging and diagnostics technology to patients across central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland and establishes a joint research and innovation collaboration. The deal…
Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health has deployed an AI tool to identify patients eligible for its Heal at Home program in real time, replacing a manual chart review process that required clinicians to sort through more than 160…
