Innovation

St. Louis-based Mercy teamed up with Microsoft to create an generative AI-powered chatbot designed to act as a "super-smart assistant" for its employees. 

Burlington, Mass.-based Tufts Medicine is launching an AI-powered digital personal assistant that will assist patients with determining the appropriate time and location to seek medical care.

Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare has rolled out virtual nursing at more than hospital 500 beds and experienced declines in patient lengths of stay and readmission rates.

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health is partnering with virtual care provider Biofourmis to ramp up hospital-level and post-acute care at home.

Last February, health system digital leaders threw around superlatives like "iPhone" moment, "endless" possibilities" and the "future" of medicine in describing ChatGPT's healthcare promise. So has the tool been as transformative as advertised?

While some health systems have been apprehensive about setting up hospital-at-home programs because of reimbursement uncertainty, hospitals continue to seek CMS approval to provide acute care in the home.

Boston Children's Hospital's ChatGPT expert is teaching physicians and artificial intelligence how to understand one another better. And he is one of a "small handful of people on the planet" qualified to do so.

There is an urgent need for a radical reimagination of the healthcare system, Jeffrey Flaks, president and CEO of Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare, told Becker's. 

Cleveland Clinic is joining the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium. 

Could Apple's newly launched Vision Pro headset be a new frontier for health systems? San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare is about to find out.