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…

As AI moves deeper into clinical workflows, health systems are drawing sharper boundaries around what makes an AI tool “safe to deploy” — and who issues that stamp of approval. For Amer Saati, MD, chief medical information officer at Roseville,…

Microsoft has formed an AI “superintelligence” team that will focus on transforming healthcare with the technology. The tech giant expects the “arrival of medical superintelligence in the next few years,” Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman wrote in a Nov. 6…

The term “AI nurse” is appearing with increasing frequency in healthcare technology pitches and product descriptions. But for many nursing leaders, it is a line that should not be crossed. Titles such as nurse and physician are not marketing tools,…

Health systems and tech companies like Epic are teaming up to advance care at home with digital solutions. The Connected Health Collaborative Community — which is cohosted by the Digital Medicine Society and Consumer Technology Association, and supported by Worcester,…

UF Health, based in Gainesville, Fla., has partnered with Epic to introduce a new EHR feature, MyChart Central. The tool allows patients to securely access their health information from multiple participating systems through a single login. Launched Nov. 6 as…

AI has been the sixth most-cited reason for U.S. job cuts so far in 2025, but the No. 2 cause of layoffs in October, Challenger, Gray & Christmas found. The technology has been responsible for 48,414 staff reductions this year,…