CLEAR has signed a contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to bring its digital identity platform to Medicare.gov beginning in early 2026. Here are three things to know about the partnership: The work aligns with priorities laid…

CVS Health unveiled an updated growth strategy and raised its 2025 financial guidance during its Dec. 9 Investor Day, detailing plans to transform consumer experiences, deliver best-in-class execution and strengthen performance across its diversified businesses. The company also released its…

President Donald Trump wrote in a Dec. 8 Truth Social post that he plans to issue an executive order on artificial intelligence this week. The executive order would establish a single, national artificial intelligence standard for the U.S. “I will…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says China is better positioned to deploy AI capacity than the U.S., noting how quickly it constructs healthcare facilities. “If you want to build a data center here in the United States, from breaking ground to…

Health systems can use AI to adopt AI. That’s according to Oracle, which helps healthcare organizations launch the technology with strong AI prompts. “In a recent project at a healthcare system in North America, the client team identified testing scenarios,…

The FDA has qualified the first AI-based drug development tool to support metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis clinical trials. The cloud-based tool, AI-Based Histologic Measurement of NASH (AIM-NASH), is designed to assist pathologists in assessing liver biopsy images, according to a Dec.…

Boston-based Athenahealth will offer Microsoft Dragon Copilot as a new ambient documentation option within its EHR, athenaOne, in the first half of 2026. The partnership adds Dragon Copilot to athenaOne’s Ambient Notes, a fully integrated AI tool that creates clinical…

The American Hospital Association is advising hospitals and health systems to fix a cybersecurity flaw that received the highest vulnerability score possible. The remote code execution vulnerability affects applications using React 19, a free, open-source program for building web and…

Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network is examining how ambient AI can boost population health, its new CIO told Becker’s. The 14-hospital system has a codevelopment deal with healthcare AI startup Abridge and can tap into its parent organization, Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health,…

West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health has partnered with New Jersey Devils hockey player Jack Hughes on a multi-year initiative encouraging New Jersey residents to stay current on routine checkups and preventive screenings. Under the agreement, Mr. Hughes will serve as…