Hospitals are beginning to rethink how new technology reaches the bedside. Instead of introducing tools and workflows from the top down, many health systems are starting earlier in the process — asking nurses to help design the systems they’ll eventually…

Emergency departments nationwide face mounting pressure, from rising patient acuity to staffing shortages and operational inefficiencies. In a recent discussion hosted by Becker’s Healthcare and Mednition, leaders from Inspira Health, a four-hospital system in southern New Jersey, shared how they…

Sharp HealthCare has appointed Tommy Korn, MD, as its first chief spatial computing officer — a first-of-its-kind role in healthcare designed to integrate immersive technology into clinical care. When Dr. Korn waved hello during a recent video call, his real…

An outage at Microsoft’s cloud computing platform affected Epic’s MyChart patient portal, the Independent reported. DownDetector, a crowdsourced interruption-reporting site, showed a big increase in errors Oct. 29 for Microsoft Azure, with MyChart one of the impacted services, according to…

Hospitals are swimming in metrics — quality scores, throughput data, readmission rates, to name a few — but for those responsible for steering a facility’s digital transformation, one question looms above the rest: How to know when technology is actually…

Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System said it responded quickly after a cyberattack on its health plan’s pharmacy benefit manager. Security Health Plan uses MedImpact, which was reportedly hacked by Russian-based ransomware group Qilin. “As soon as we were alerted of…

Oracle Health, the nation’s second-largest EHR vendor by hospital market share, had a busy October with a new product launch and system rollout plans. Here are seven updates on the company in the past month: 1. EHR vendors like Oracle…

Microsoft said its Dragon Copilot — which ambiently listens to patient visits and drafts clinical notes for the EHR — documented more than 17 million patient encounters last quarter, nearly five times the total from a year ago. “More than…

New York City-based Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center has launched real-time data integration between its EHR and clinical trial platforms. The new system automates the transfer of structured clinical data from Epic into sponsor electronic data capture systems, cutting the…

Texas Medical Center Innovation has selected 11 startups for its 2025 HealthTech Accelerator, a six-month program designed to help early-stage medtech companies advance clinical and commercial development. The new cohort, announced Oct. 28, includes startups applying AI, biomedical engineering and…