Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Heritage Medical Associates will link their EHR systems beginning Nov. 1 in a move designed to streamline care for patients shared between the two organizations. Under the agreement, Heritage will join Vanderbilt’s Epic…

New Haven, Conn.-based Yale School of Medicine’s department of pathology has developed an artificial intelligence tool that checks pathology reports against patient medical records to identify potential discrepancies. The tool, recently launched on a trial basis, cross-references pathology reports with…

In an era when nearly every hospital wants to be seen as innovative, a small but growing number of health systems are taking that ambition further — becoming the first to pilot emerging technologies and forge novel partnerships aimed at…

Hospitals are racing to integrate AI into daily care, but some nursing leaders worry the pace is outstripping the profession’s ability to understand the technology. At Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer Marc Benoy, BSN, RN, sees that…

In the race to modernize healthcare technology, hospitals are learning an old lesson in a new way: Clean their plate before reaching for dessert. For Becket Mahnke, MD, chief medical information officer at Wenatchee, Wash.-based Confluence Health, that mantra is…

Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health said some of its patients were affected by a cybersecurity incident involving Oracle Health, the EHR vendor formerly known as Cerner. Oracle Health notified LifeBridge in March that an unauthorized third party had gained access to its…

Epic plans to sunset its Workshop program as the EHR giant moves away from codeveloping with startups. The vendor launched the initiative, then called Partners and Pals, in 2023 to build software in partnership with outside companies, including AI scribe…

Oracle can begin construction on a new world headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., after getting approval from the city’s Metro Council, NewsChannel5 reported. The estimated $2 billion project has been in the works for four years, but Oracle co-founder and Chief Technology…

Microsoft is partnering with San Francisco-based Pangaea Data to integrate Dragon Copilot into the company’s clinical AI platform, building upon a “breakout” year for the technology. The collaboration brings Microsoft’s speech recognition and generative AI tools to bear on Pangaea’s…

The Trump administration on July 30 unveiled a public-private partnership aimed at building a more connected, user-friendly digital health system for patients and providers — an initiative that is now beginning to take shape. The effort centers on two main…