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CHICAGO­­ — September 15, 2026 — GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) today announced CareIntellect™ for Operations, a new AI-enabled Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application designed to help health systems forecast capacity constraints up to 72 hours in advance, providing comprehensive unit-, department-, and…

Call it planned obsolescence for the C-suite: Several health IT leaders say the chief AI officer title is built to disappear, folded back into the CIO’s job once AI stops being a special initiative and starts being how the organization…

Building an AI agent that clicks through a payer portal once, in a demo, on a clean test account, is not hard anymore. Frontier models are a commodity, and browser automation frameworks are open source. A small engineering team can…

Health system CIOs, revenue cycle leaders and chief innovation officers gathered at Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle Conference to share what is working — and what is not — as AI reshapes every corner of health system operations.…

Ten health systems are making targeted workforce reductions affecting IT and coding roles as organizations look to streamline operations and manage costs. Here are the health systems and hospitals making these cuts in 2026, as reported by Becker’s:  September: Palo…

Health systems have spent the past two years asking whether their AI tools work. A more challenging question is now coming into focus: whether the measures they are using to answer that question are still valuable.  Cheristi Cognetta-Rieke, DNP, RN,…

At Becker’s 11th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference on Sept. 14 in Chicago, three revenue cycle leaders discussed what reskilling a finance team looks like once the easy automation wins are gone. Diana Allen, PhD, revenue…

As healthcare organizations deploy more artificial intelligence, the natural response is to add more governance. More committees. More reviews. More policies. More approval steps. But more governance does not necessarily mean better governance. Too little governance can expose organizations to…

President Donald Trump pushed back Sept. 14 against Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to slow the pace of advanced artificial intelligence development, arguing that existing federal authority and presidential oversight are sufficient to address risks from the technology. “The only…

Federal health officials are exploring how Medicare could pay for artificial intelligence tools that provide medical care or diagnoses as the Trump administration pushes to expand the technology’s role in patient care, The New York Times reported Sept. 14. Officials…