Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Healthcare technology and revenue cycle management company CareCloud has promoted Bonnie Boyer to CFO, effective Oct. 1.  Ms. Boyer currently serves as CareCloud’s assistant CFO, according to a Sept. 29 news release from the company. She succeeds Norman Roth, who…

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said AI could help address chronic disease, which he described as necessary to lowering healthcare costs. Doing so would require consolidating health data sets and making them readable, he said, according to Politico. Mr.…

OpenAI has canceled the public release of GPT-6.1 Astra, its next-generation AI model, after internal testing found safety and alignment problems, the company confirmed to Becker’s. The model had been slated to debut in ChatGPT and Codex in October. It…

Over 1,000 nurses plan to march Sept. 30 in San Francisco to protest AI company Palantir’s work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. National Nurses United and its affiliate, California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing…

Most revenue cycle strategies begin after the patient leaves the room. By then, documentation gaps, missed codes and underdocumented complexity have already made their way into the clinical note. Becker’s Healthcare spoke with Kevin Wang, MD, Chief Medical Officer at…

Cooper Norcross Health is piloting Microsoft Dragon Copilot for nurses at Cooper Norcross University Hospital in Camden, N.J. During patient care, a nurse can start an ambient recording on a mobile device. Dragon Copilot uses the conversation and spoken observations…

Vanderbilt Clarksville (Tenn.) Hospital will transition to Epic on Oct. 3 as part of a multimillion-dollar EHR upgrade. The transition is part of the recently acquired hospital’s integration into Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health’s broader network, according to a Sept. 28…

When OpenAI announced on Sept. 1 that ChatGPT could connect to Epic, reactions split between “this changes everything” and “this changes nothing.” For chief medical information officers and chief technology officers, the more consequential questions lie elsewhere: Will this integration…

OpenEvidence has raised $250 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Byers Capital, valuing the AI clinical decision-support platform at $15 billion. Daniel Nadler, PhD, founder and CEO of OpenEvidence, confirmed the raise and its lead investors…

Wes Donohoe is serving as Optum Health’s CEO for AI and product innovation, the company confirmed to Becker’s Sept. 28. According to Mr. Donohoe’s LinkedIn post, he started the role, which focuses on AI and product innovation, Sept. 21. Mr.…