Brentwood, Tenn.-based Ardent Health has surpassed 1 million patient encounters supported by Ambience Healthcare’s ambient AI solution. Ardent-affiliated clinicians now use Ambience in 87% of ambulatory encounters across specialties, well above the 40% to 45% industry benchmark cited in peer-reviewed…
Innovation
Two health systems have received CMS approval to add new hospitals to their hospital-at-home programs so far in 2026. The Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, which lets approved hospitals deliver inpatient-level care to eligible Medicare patients in their homes,…
WellSpan Health has completed its migration to Amazon Web Services. The York, Pa.-based health system moved more than 300 clinical applications and 7.5 petabytes of clinical and non-clinical data, including its full Epic EHR environment, off data center infrastructure and…
Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health’s $1.5 billion Pearl innovation district has already generated $224 million in economic impact and 2,270 jobs in its first year alone. The district, which opened June 5, 2025, also produced $9.8 million in tax revenue for…
Rockville Centre, N.Y.-based Catholic Health and GE HealthCare have signed a 10-year, approximately $500 million strategic partnership, known as a Care Alliance, to modernize imaging and diagnostic technology across the six-hospital system. The agreement, unveiled July 16, will add more…
Advertisement
San Francisco-based Bunkerhill Health raised $55 million in Series B funding July 16 to expand its Carebricks agentic AI platform — bringing total funding to $55 million across its seed, Series A and Series B rounds, according to a news…
Ask a health system CIO which of their peers does technology best, and most have an answer ready. Ask them to size up their own budgets against the industry, or to name the executive title healthcare could live without, and…
Health system venture arms have multiplied as leaders seek to accelerate AI adoption and too often they’ve accumulated deals without clearly connecting them to care delivery. Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health built its venture arm differently. Accrete Health Partners, the…
Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health’s $1.5 billion Pearl innovation district generated an estimated $224 million in economic impact during its first year of operation. Developed through a public-private partnership between Atrium Health and Wexford Science & Technology, the innovation district opened…
If there was a single theme to what health system CIOs told Becker’s this quarter, it was this: The hard part of AI isn’t the technology. From CommonSpirit to Stanford to Rush, the leaders running big health systems’ digital strategies…