The U.S. House of Representatives plans to weigh in on a possible five-year extension of the CMS waiver for acute hospital care at home. The House will consider the Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act, which would prolong Medicare hospital-at-home reimbursement…

Oracle Health, the nation’s second-largest EHR vendor by hospital market share, had a busy November, from new partnerships to an interoperability advancement. Here are 12 times Becker’s reported on the company in the past month: 1. Oracle Health Information Network…

Cleveland-based MetroHealth, which has used the Epic EHR system since 1999, meets quarterly with Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner. “We still have quarterly calls with Judy Faulkner,” David Kaelber, MD, PhD, MetroHealth’s vice president and chief health informatics officer,…

Hospitals have trouble disconnecting from breached IT vendors and AI platforms, compromising their cybersecurity, Black Book Market Research found. Here are seven things to know from the Nov. 24 report that surveyed 250 hospital and health system executives and 109…

Oracle has elected the former chief executive of Quest Diagnostics to its board as the software giant aims to expand its healthcare presence. The company unanimously named Stephen Rusckowski to its Board of Directors on Nov. 18. He was president…

President Donald Trump has unveiled an AI project to boost scientific discovery and the nation’s “health security.” President Trump signed an executive order Nov. 24 launching the Genesis Mission, which directs the secretary of energy, assistant to the president for…

Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health is bringing “joy” back to medicine by offering AI to its roughly 22,000 physicians and advanced practice providers. The 69-hospital network recently became the largest health system ever to win the American Medical Association’s Joy in…

Often, the conversation around innovation in healthcare focuses on technology: new tools, new systems, new efficiencies. But at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic, the conversation begins with the people who will use those tools every day. That philosophy underpins two Mayo-led…

Microsoft rolled out new radiology-specific capabilities for its clinical AI assistant, Dragon Copilot, at the Radiological Society of North America’s 2025 Annual Meeting, expanding the tool’s integration with the company’s PowerScribe One reporting system. Now in preview, the update brings…

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital has reduced average call wait times by 58% and daily call abandonment by 56% after deploying AI agents from Hyro. Within two weeks of launch, the health system also saw a 21% increase in scheduled appointments…