Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital’s data and AI partnership with Denver-based Palantir Technologies is gaining fresh recognition after the Tampa Bay Business Journal named the collaboration a 2026 Inno Award winner for “Partnership of the Year.” The academic health system began…

Health systems are under growing pressure to increase operational efficiency, improve patient outcomes and adapt quickly to shifting care demands. At Becker’s 13th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable, in a session sponsored by GE HealthCare, leaders from Duke University Health…

Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., are urging the Drug Enforcement Administration to extend federal telemedicine flexibilities for prescribing controlled substances before they expire Dec. 31. In a Dec. 2 letter to DEA Administrator Terrance Cole, the senators…

Springfield, Ill.-based Springfield Memorial Hospital has teamed up with CareView Communications to implement a virtual monitoring platform aimed at enhancing patient safety and staff efficiency. Under the agreement, the hospital will deploy CareView’s Virtual Sitting system, which enables continuous observation…

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital employees continue to deal with problems with the agency’s new Oracle Health EHR ahead of a big expansion of the system, The Washington Post reported Dec 3. The VA put the EHR rollout on…

Patients of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente are increasingly opting for e-visits, a JAMA Network Open analysis found. Here are six key takeaways from the study of the asynchronous message-based visits, according to a Dec. 2 health system news release: 1.…

Watsonville (Calif.) Community Hospital is looking for a health system partner, with a recent cyberattack contributing to its financial challenges, Lookout Santa Cruz (Calif.) reported. The 106-bed hospital has been talking to organizations including Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter…

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare plans to roll out digital health kiosks to boost rural healthcare access. The 17-hospital system is partnering with Champaign, Ill.-based University of Illinois Gies College of Business and IT company Tata Elxsi on the kiosks, which…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees on Dec. 1 that the company is declaring a “code red” to improve ChatGPT, a move that will divert resources away from several other projects, The Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 2. In a…

Albuquerque, N.M.-based UNM Health System is building an app to help older adults track health changes over time. The academic medical center is developing the app in concert with the New Mexico Health Care Authority and health IT vendor ScienceSoft,…