Chicago-based UI Health is implementing Abridge’s AI platform systemwide to support clinical documentation across its inpatient, outpatient and emergency care settings. Abridge integrates with UI Health’s Epic EHR and is designed to reduce documentation burdens for clinicians and trainees, according…

Data quality is the top barrier to AI in revenue cycle management, according to a report from Black Book Research.  Black Book surveyed 149 revenue cycle leaders between Nov. 1-11 to examine how frontline teams “experience AI and analytics in…

CMS has released updated telehealth guidance following the end of the 43-day government shutdown. Here are four things to know from the November FAQ: 1. CMS will retroactively pay for telehealth claims for services rendered amid the fiscal standoff. 2.…

Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine’s marketing department is emphasizing its strong brand while “not resting on our laurels,” its new leader told Becker’s. The 11-hospital system and academic medical center already has long waitlists for its high-acuity specialties, including oncology, neuro…

West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health signed up for Mayo Clinic’s new AI innovation program to “jumpstart” the health system’s digital evolution, a leader told Becker’s. The 35-hospital system became the first organization to join Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights, a new…

As Epic begins deploying a new wave of capabilities across its EHR platform, health systems around the country are starting to go live with the updated tools and features. Becker’s reported in August that Epic planned to introduce a broad…

Prairie du Sac, Wis.-based Sauk Prairie Healthcare is partnering with Jorie AI to advance automation across the system’s revenue cycle operations.  Through Jorie AI’s technology, the system will integrate end-to-end automation throughout its revenue cycle, according to a Nov. 20…

Several patients of Buffalo, N.Y.-based Catholic Health have withdrawn their lawsuit against an agentic AI vendor for the health system. In May, the individuals sued Serviceaide in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after a data breach…

A former FBI agent spent four years tracking down an alleged hacker of a Kansas hospital even after leaving the agency, The Wall Street Journal reported. Eric Kerr, a cybersecurity researcher who departed the bureau in 2023, continued to pursue…

Rady Children’s Hospital Orange County has expanded its virtual nursing program to its emergency and neuroscience units.  The hospital in November added virtual nurse coverage to the Julia and George Argyros Emergency Department and the neuroscience unit in the Bill…