Healthcare organizations are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence to improve efficiency and reduce administrative burden, but most remain cautious about deploying AI in high-risk clinical scenarios, a Dec. 29 KLAS Research report found. The report is based on interviews and surveys…

Federal officials and industry leaders outlined key policy shifts ahead for telehealth during the American Telemedicine Association EDGE 2025 Policy Conference Dec. 10, emphasizing that virtual care’s long-term viability hinges on stable rules around licensure, payment, fraud and AI governance.…

Healthcare AI is like the subtitle of the first “Star Wars” movie, giving physicians “a new hope” that they can practice present, joyful medicine, an academic health system leader told Becker’s. Those reasons for optimism include ambient listening to automate…

Kaiser Permanente Southern California Pathology has implemented a new enterprise digital pathology platform, according to Sony Wirio, MD, the health system’s regional chief of pathology. Dr. Wirio wrote in a LinkedIn post that the organization transitioned to Sectra Digital Pathology,…

Three health systems reported that patient information may have been involved in a data security incident tied to Cerner, the EHR vendor now known as Oracle Health. Lake Regional Health System (Osage Beach, Mo.), OSF Saint Clare Medical Center (Princeton,…

OpenAI is hiring a researcher to focus on health AI safety as it expands efforts to ensure its models provide reliable medical information. The San Francisco-based company is seeking a researcher, health AI, to join its Safety Systems team, according…

Health systems continue to collaborate with Big Tech on AI and other digital transformation projects. Here are 11 partnerships Becker’s reported on in the past month: 1. Michigan Medicine recently completed a project enabling Microsoft’s ambient voice technology in clinical…

CMS OK’d five more health systems for acute hospital care at home in the second half of 2025. Here are the organizations that have been cleared for the agency’s hospital-at-home waiver since July 1 (and their approval dates): 1. Penn Medicine…

IT spending is anticipated to experience its highest growth rate in nearly 30 years, International Data Corp. reported. Here are five things to know from the IT intelligence firm’s December report: 1. Worldwide IT spending is projected to climb by…

From a looming legal challenge to one of the largest single-instance Epic rollouts in the country, here are key updates on Epic’s strategy, customer deployments and industry relationships, reported by Becker’s Hospital Review in December: