Long Beach, Calif.-based Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital has named Los Angeles Rams quarterback and Super Bowl champion Matthew Stafford as its official brand ambassador. The partnership, announced in a Nov. 20 news release, is designed to elevate awareness of…

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health and K Health have formed a joint venture to expand access to primary care across New York through a new virtual platform. The service, called Northwell Primary Care Now, uses K Health’s clinical-grade AI…

Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy’s partnership with Microsoft is bringing back what the health system’s Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive, Stephanie Clements, describes as “invisible care.” Mercy began collaborating with Microsoft in 2023 with the goal of using generative AI…

Oracle said it’s bringing a “rare mix of startup energy and enterprise reach” as it builds a new global hub in Nashville, Tenn. The $57.4 billion software giant revealed in 2024 that it would be moving its world headquarters to…

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…