Healthcare is sidestepping the AI-related job cuts affecting other industries. For the time being, at least. As the unemployment rate for college graduates ticks up and hiring in sectors that employ white-collar workers slows, at the same time executives warn…

Parkview Health, based in Fort Wayne, Ind., the University of Notre Dame and the 1842 Fund are partnering to launch AI-driven digital health startups focused on improving healthcare access and outcomes in rural communities. The collaboration aims to co-create up…

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health is scaling an AI operating system across its nine hospitals and over 250 care locations. The platform from Aidoc expands upon the health system’s successful adoption of the startup’s radiology AI. In the past year, Aidoc…

CMS launched an interoperability pledge program in July to spur information-sharing efforts. But how does it differ from TEFCA, aka the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement? Steven Posnack, principal deputy assistant secretary for technology policy at HHS, addressed that…

AtlantiCare is nearly two years into its six-year Vision 2030 strategy, a systemwide roadmap built around multiple transformation pillars spanning clinical care, operations and infrastructure. One major component of that strategy, part of the health system’s “Accelerating Transformation” pillar, is…

Nearly 8 in 10 acute care nurses say they lose time each week to unproductive charting, and those facing the heaviest documentation burdens are significantly more likely to experience burnout and consider leaving their jobs, according to a Dec. 16…

Two health systems have transitioned their enterprise resource planning applications to the Oracle cloud. Kalispell, Mont.-based Billings Clinic-Logan Health standardized finance, human resources, supply chain and customer service with Oracle Fusion. The platform streamlined a “patchwork of legacy systems,” reducing…

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is urging 10 of the largest electronic health record vendors to give patients more control over who can access their health information. The move follows multiple warnings from the Department of Defense’s inspector general about potential…

The healthcare industry generates about 30% of the world’s data. However, historically this data has been locked in silos and healthcare organizations have failed to generate real-time operational and clinical insights at scale. A new generation of unified data ecosystems,…

Trinity Health, a 92 hospital system headquartered in Livonia, Mich., is nearing completion of its $800 million EHR rollout and expects to be the largest single‑instance Epic user in the country next year, according to CEO Mike Slubowski. Mr. Slubowski…