Despite health systems’ investments in marketing and patient acquisition, many still struggle to turn patient interest into scheduled appointments. The disconnect between digital discovery tools and scheduling systems often causes patients to drop off before receiving care and for providers,…

Among the most significant challenges facing the healthcare industry are rising costs, the aging population and the shrinking healthcare workforce. On top of that, policy changes are putting pressure on payers and there is tremendous uncertainty about federal research funding.…

Cedars-Sinai Health Ventures has joined a $25 million funding round for an AI-powered behavioral healthcare startup. The venture capital arm of the Los Angeles-based health system participated in the preempted series B financing Nov. 6 for Amae Health, which plans…

Baraga County Memorial Hospital in Michigan is expanding its partnership with Oracle Health to standardize technology across its facilities and improve clinical and operational efficiency. The 15-bed critical access hospital will deploy Oracle Health’s CommunityWorks solutions and broaden its use…

Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner says it’s imperative to help government officials understand the software they set laws and regulations for. In a Nov. 3 blog post, she recalled a conversation with a U.S. congressman who was set to…

OpenAI is exploring whether to expand into consumer health applications, Seeking Alpha reported Nov. 10. The company, best known for creating ChatGPT, is discussing products such as a generative AI-powered personal health assistant and a health data aggregator, according to…

A U.S. Senate bill to reopen the federal government would likely reimburse healthcare providers for Medicare telehealth visits that haven’t been paid during the stoppage, Inside Health Policy reported Nov. 10. Telehealth claims would be paid retroactively to Oct. 1,…

AI is already transforming the healthcare workforce and the care they deliver, from automated coding to scribing — with many more advances to come. That was the message from Becker’s 13th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable’s AI Summit, which took…

CGH Medical Center in Sterling, Ill., has launched Epic, a new EHR system that connects its hospital and clinic operations under a single digital platform. CGH officials said Nov. 2 in a news release that the move is intended to…

Oracle Health and Life Sciences is partnering with the Cancer Center Informatics Society to develop new AI applications aimed at improving cancer care and research. The partnership combines Oracle’s data and AI technologies with Ci4CC’s network of National Cancer Institute-designated…