Cleveland Clinic is evolving its approach to innovation through a new partnership with venture capital firm Khosla Ventures, designed to accelerate the development of market-ready healthcare technologies and improve patient care. The collaboration, first announced Oct. 14 at the Cleveland…
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Alistair Erskine, MD, the first-ever chief information digital officer of Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health, aims to bridge the many gaps between payers and providers — both within his health system and industrywide — through digital tools and AI. Dr. Erskine took…
Even as healthcare costs rise, many U.S. employers, health plans and hospital systems are maintaining or increasing investments in digital health technology — but they’re growing more selective about what they buy, an Oct. 15 report from the Peterson Health…
Cleveland Clinic has formed a strategic collaboration with Khosla Ventures to accelerate the development of new health technologies, including AI, digital health tools and next-generation therapeutics. Here are five things to know about the collaboration:
As healthcare moves further into the digital age, with a greater focus on AI and other emerging technologies, health systems have been increasingly elevating tech leaders to chief executive roles. Here are five former health system IT and digital executives…
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…
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…