Innovation

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…

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health hopes its hospital-at-home success will encourage more private payers to cover the care model and federal lawmakers to make it a long-term solution. Here are five things to know from a June 2 news release: 1.…

During a recent Becker’s Healthcare webinar hosted by Martti, an Equiti Solution, Andy Schwieter, director of language access services at Cincinnati Children’s, made the case that treating it as infrastructure, not an obligation, is what separates organizations that improve from…

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health and Royal Philips have entered a seven-year strategic alliance covering advanced imaging technology, AI-enabled care and a joint research and co-development agreement across WellSpan’s 12 hospitals, diagnostic imaging centers and ambulatory surgery centers. The commercial agreement…

Laurinburg, N.C.-based Scotland Health Care System was named a finalist for the 2026 American Hospital Association Rural Hospital Excellence in Innovation Award for its health-at-home program. The program includes community health workers visiting patients at home to support medication management…

Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health is reporting strong results, including no patient deaths or healthcare-acquired infections, from its first year of hospital at home. Here are five things to know from a June 1 news release: 1. Launched in April 2025,…

Health systems have spent the past two years stress-testing ambient AI scribes, but isolating return on investment has remained difficult due to many overlapping initiatives and a lack of clean attribution paths. Agentic AI is shifting that calculus. When an…

Healthcare AI is leaving its experimental phase behind — most organizations are already using it, and 43% are piloting or testing agentic AI. There are numerous success stories where healthcare organizations deployed AI in pilots or applied AI in a…