Faced with staffing shortages, administrative strain and geographic barriers, rural hospitals are increasingly adopting AI to expand care access and ease pressure on front-line teams. Rather than pursuing large-scale tech overhauls, many are implementing lightweight, targeted tools that support documentation,…

Across health systems, chief medical information officers say physician frustration is not driven by a single broken workflow, but by the compounding effect of documentation burden, chart review overload, inbox volume, payer friction and fragmented digital tools that pull clinicians…

Renton, Wash.-based Providence has reduced its IT application portfolio by more than a third, saving “millions” of dollars in the process, a leader told Becker’s. The 51-hospital system has downsized from over 2,000 applications five years ago to about 1,300…

Tulsa, Okla.-based Saint Francis Health System has rolled out a hospital-at-home program it says will continue even if Medicare reimbursement stops. The health system launched acute hospital care at home in collaboration with local payer CommunityCare, which is jointly owned…

Boston Children’s Hospital is shortening what could be a weekslong process of identifying similar patients by using AI to locate “clinical doppelgangers.” The pediatric health system recently built a digital tool that allows cardiac ICU providers to surface past Boston…

Health systems continue to look to Big Tech to increase access to primary and virtual care as healthcare leaders recognize it’s “not a traditional brick-and-mortar industry anymore,” as one executive told Becker’s. In the past month, two health systems expanded…

Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health has expanded access to an EMR dashboard that supports geriatric care across its acute and ambulatory care practices. Developed by the Division of Geriatric Medicine at Hackensack University Medical Center in collaboration with the system’s…

A research team led by the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University at Buffalo in New York has developed an artificial intelligence model that predicts which cardiac patients are at risk of hospital readmission within 90 days…

Researchers at Evanston, Ill.-based Northwestern University have developed a soft, flexible probe that can continuously monitor fetal vital signs in real time during surgery. The device — described by the school as the first of its kind — fits through…

Four months into the job, Joel Klein, MD, executive vice president and chief digital and information officer of Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health, already has a packed calendar. On the technology front, the 18-hospital network is implementing a new enterprise…