Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Health is saving $45 million over five years by migrating Epic to the Microsoft cloud. The 12-hospital system transitioned its EHR to Azure Virtual Services in May 2024, cutting infrastructure costs by a third and boosting application…

Oracle Health Information Network, a subsidiary of Oracle, has been named a Qualified Health Information Network under the federal Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement. The designation places Oracle among a select group of organizations approved to exchange health data…

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has gone live with Epic’s AI Text Assistant, a generative AI tool designed to make clinical notes easier for patients to understand, according to the health system’s associate chief health informatics officer for platform innovation. Stephon…

West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health has become the first health system to sign on to Mayo Clinic’s new AI and digital transformation program. The Rochester, Minn.-based academic medical center launched Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights on Nov. 3, offering its AI…

For years, the approach to sepsis in acute care settings has been the same: early warning alerts and standardized care protocols.  Unfortunately, it hasn’t moved the needle. Sepsis still affects 2.5 million U.S. hospital patients every year, kills over 300,000, and costs the healthcare system $52 billion (AHRQ, 2021). …

As AI becomes more common in clinical practice, policymakers risk creating rules that benefit only large health systems unless they account for the needs of smaller providers, a Kaiser Permanente leader warned. Daniel Yang, MD, vice president of AI and…

Four hospitals and health systems in 2025 have launched new hospital-at-home programs. The “hospital-at-home” model, in which patients receive acute, inpatient-level care in their own homes rather than being admitted to a traditional hospital unit, continues to gain traction in…

Elon Musk said Tesla will give everyone in the world access to top surgeons — they just won’t be human. In a Nov. 14 interview with billionaire investor Ron Baron, Mr. Musk detailed how the company’s Optimus robot will offer…

Forbes named two health system executives to its sixth annual CIO Next List for 2025. To find worthy candidates, the publication accepted nominations and conferred with experts and trade organizations. Forbes narrowed down the hundreds of contenders to 50 who…

Artificial intelligence has evolved from experimental pilots to a foundational part of healthcare strategy. Across eight sessions at the Becker’s CEO + CFO Roundtable AI Summit, hospital and health system leaders described how they are moving beyond hype to build…