Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine is partnering with London-based Founders Factory to launch an accelerator to help U.K. and European AI startups enter the U.S. healthcare market. The four-month program will support ventures focused on healthcare technologies and offer access to Northwestern’s…

NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue has been awarded $100,000 to develop and implement a program focused on emergency preparedness. The funding, provided by the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will support…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic plans to codesign an enterprise-grade care navigation tool with digital health startup Ubie. The two organizations aim to consolidate the multiple digital front doors used across primary care practices into a single platform, according to a…

Eight health system executives have teamed up with technology and patient and caregiver safety leaders to set guidelines for patient communications involving AI. The PatientAI Collaborative created the first operational standard for AI-generated messages in automated outreach, care navigation tools,…

The healthcare tech stack has never been more crowded. In less than a decade, the average number of digital health tools physicians use increased by 73%. Yet connecting fragmented tools in day-to-day operations remains a persistent and costly bottleneck. Clinical…

As health systems race to embed AI into clinical and administrative workflows, many are discovering that deploying the technology is only part of the challenge. Preparing the workforce may prove even more complex. Across the industry, leaders told Becker’s that…

Pittsburgh-based UPMC is in the midst of one of the largest EHR consolidations in the country, moving its vast network of hospitals and care sites onto a single Epic instance. Health system leaders say the shift will shape how the…

Pasadena-based Southern California Permanente Medical Group has cut median response times for high-acuity patient portal messages from 22 hours to five with AI. The medical group, with 8,000-plus physicians serving more than 4.9 million members, rolled out the Smart Messaging…

Intermountain Ventures is collaborating with a health tech startup to earlier identify cases of multiple sclerosis. The venture capital and innovation arm of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health has partnered with Canary Speech to study whether AI-powered vocal analysis can…

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham is entering its next phase of growth for its hospital-at-home program after CMS extended the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver through September 2030, giving health systems long-sought regulatory certainty. Since 2022, Mass General Brigham’s…