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…

Several smartwatches claim to be able to detect atrial fibrillation in wearers. But how accurate are they? That was the focus of an October meta-analysis in JACC: Advances that reviewed 28 studies spanning 17,349 patients. Here is where the devices…

When UChicago Medicine began piloting ambient AI technology in an emergency department last year, physicians quickly found a limitation: the tool was optimized for outpatient encounters rather than the fast-paced ED environment where patients present with acute medical needs. Ambient…

Providence, R.I.-based Care New England went live with its Epic EHR system Oct. 4, relying on an outsourced IT workforce to support the transition.  In 2023, the health system transferred nearly 160 IT employees to IBM spinoff Kyndryl, and that…

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente recently completed one of the largest EHR consolidations in healthcare history, migrating about 40 million patient records. In early 2025, the 40-hospital system merged 12 instances of its Epic EHR into two: in its Northern California…

As AI becomes embedded in more aspects of healthcare, health systems are at a crossroads: Should they rely on ambient documentation tools bundled with their EHRs or invest in more powerful third-party assistants? At Becker’s 13th Annual CEO + CFO…

ARC Innovation at Sheba Medical Center in Israel and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York unveiled a three-year collaboration with Nvidia to use large language model technology to accelerate genomic discovery. The initiative, according to…