Health system executives have been talking about innovation for years – until it almost became a meaningless word. Some systems set up innovation departments and appointed leaders while others designed a cultural doctrine for innovation to permeate throughout the organization.…
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Lakeland (Fla.) Regional Health has launched a hospital-at-home program, WFLA reported. In the first week, the health system has treated nine patients at home, discharging four of them, according to the April 21 story. “This is extremely beneficial to patients,”…
Advocate Health has been aiming to take cognitive and documentation load off its nursing staff by implementing AI and virtual nursing. The Charlotte, N.C.-based health system recently launched Project Nursing, an ambient AI documentation tool from Microsoft for nurses, at…
Remote patient monitoring at Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine has led to a $12 million return on investment from avoided hospitalizations, a new study found. Hospitalizations fell by 59% among patients in a remote patient monitoring program in the six months…
Healthcare organizations are increasingly seeking scalable solutions that improve access, boost efficiency and support workforce well-being. At Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine, two such initiatives are reshaping care delivery: hospital-at-home and ambient AI documentation. As part of an enterprisewide care transformation strategy,…
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Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Health System has entered the design-and-build phase for its transition to the Workday enterprise resource planning system. Johns Hopkins University and Health System selected the new platform in 2024 to replace SAP, the version of which will…
Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope built an AI tool with Microsoft to generate patient histories, giving clinicians more time to see patients. The large language model, developed with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service, scans years of treatment reports, notes and test…
As healthcare continues to be a hotbed for technological innovation, Punit Soni, CEO of Suki, often reflects on his company’s founding years nearly eight years ago. “It was crickets,” Mr. Soni said. “Nothing was going on and I remember thinking,…
York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health has become a “continuous innovation engine” able to rapidly scale new technologies like AI, its innovation leader told Becker’s. As part of that focus, the nine-hospital system recently promoted Mark Kandrysawtz to the role of senior…
CMS has approved seven new health systems for a waiver to provide acute hospital care at home. Here are the health systems newly OK’d to be reimbursed for hospital-at-home care, with their dates of approval and hospitals approved: 1. UW…