Board human resources committees are encouraged to transition to a broader “human capital” remit, in order to assure proper focus on new AI-prompted issues impacting the workforce. These include, but are not limited to, workforce restructuring; employee retraining and professional…

Healthcare networks are messy. Years of clinical systems, medical devices, applications, vendors and infrastructure create connections that made sense individually but collectively create far more reach than most organizations would design intentionally. Now add AI agents. An agent can arrive…

Artificial intelligence tools are helping patients and physicians identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases faster, according to an Aug. 15 report from The Wall Street Journal. The report cited several cases in which AI helped care teams or patients arrive at…

Mass General Brigham launched its postsurgical Home Hospital in 2024 for patients undergoing planned, elective procedures — bariatric surgery, colorectal surgery and nonoperative complicated diverticulitis cases with predictable recovery timelines. Nearly two years later, most of the patients don’t come…

San Francisco-based Abridge is extending its context-aware clinical decision support to every clinician at its partner health systems, regardless of how they document patient visits. More than 300 enterprise health systems, representing over 250 million patients, have adopted the tool…

Epic launched real-time prior authorization checks for clinicians at four health systems, using a new industry-standard application programming interface called Coverage Requirements Discovery. Ochsner Health in New Orleans, Froedtert ThedaCare Health in Menomonee Falls, Wis., Denver Health and Summit Health…

EHR vendors have seen a wave of significant leadership changes in recent years, most recently a string of executive departures at Epic. Health system CIOs say none of it is likely to change how they run their organizations day to…

Kelly Haynie tracks the threat not to artificial intelligence itself but to the health systems that aren’t proactive in defining the real value proposition for their teams. As CEO of Ochsner Medical Center West Bank campus, part of New Orleans-based…

The Federal Trade Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Epic, according to an Aug. 14 Reuters report citing two unnamed sources familiar with the matter. Per Reuters’ sources, the FTC has sent investigative demands to other companies in the…

Dozens of hospitals have had their patient data compromised by a 2025 breach of Oracle Health’s legacy Cerner systems. Health systems continue to alert patients of the hack that occurred as early as Jan. 22, 2025. Oracle Health asked healthcare…