While some of the nation's largest health systems have fully recovered from the Feb. 21 ransomware attack on UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare, smaller systems are still grappling with its effects, an Aug. 13 report from Strata Decision Technology found.

Optum Ventures, the venture capital arm of Optum, is participating in a $180 million funding round for Caresyntax, a data-assisted surgery platform.

Nationally, telehealth claim lines saw a slight decline, dropping from 4.86% of all medical claim lines in April to 4.82% in May, representing a 0.8% decrease, FAIR Health's monthly telehealth regional tracker found. 

Hospitals and health systems are finding considerable success with generative AI-powered clinical documentation tools.

Kaiser Permanente has made a generative AI-powered clinical documentation tool available to providers across its 40 hospitals and over 600 medical offices.

EHR vendors Epic Systems and Oracle Health are partnering with health systems on new IT initiatives.

Better use of data and improved technology will boost clinical workflows and move more care to the home by 2035, the American Hospital Association reported Aug. 13.

As the healthcare industry increasingly embraces artificial intelligence, some regions are emerging as hot spots for the budding technology.

A California children's hospital adopted a note-writing platform from Epic, helping reduce the length of clinical notes and saving providers time.

Artificial intelligence has undoubtedly changed healthcare in the last 18 months. But not everything promised about AI has come true, caution several health system leaders.