At the 10th Annual Becker’s Health IT + RCM + Digital Health Conference in Chicago, conversations about artificial intelligence took on a new tone. The focus was less on algorithms and automation and more on people — how intelligence in…

U.S. health systems are making primary care a strategic priority, with most planning to expand their footprint and adopt AI tools to improve operations, according to new research from Bain & Company. The survey, conducted in June, includes responses from…

Hyro, a New York City-based AI agent platform for healthcare, said it has raised $45 million in strategic growth funding to accelerate adoption of its technology. The funding round was led by Healthier Capital and included participation from Norwest, Define…

Healthcare thought leaders picked the emerging IT solutions that are most likely to disrupt the industry. In the Oct. 21 KLAS Research report, 41 leaders, many with C-level and executive experience, rated 20 solutions based on their potential to meet…

CMS has awarded four contracts for companies to help establish a national healthcare provider directory. The agency granted the $1 awards Sept. 30 to Availity, the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare, Palantir and Gainwell Technologies for “proof of concepts for…

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has become the first organization to pilot Epic’s new phenotyping AI tool, according to a LinkedIn post from Stephon Proctor, PhD, MBI, associate chief health informatics officer for platform innovation at the health system. The tool…

Five more health systems have joined a venture studio collaboration to codevelop healthcare startups. Founded in the spring, the Abundant Venture Partners alliance now comprises 22 health systems, with plans to add eight more, and has introduced a pediatric innovation…

CHICAGO — October 20, 2025 — GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) today announced collaborations with two leading U.S. health systems—The Queen’s Health Systems in Honolulu, HI and Duke Health in Durham, NC—to help advance the development of GE HealthCare’s new AI-driven hospital operations…

An Amazon Web Services outage on Oct. 20 temporarily disrupted operations at Boston-based Tufts Medicine. The outage, now resolved, also knocked out several major websites and apps — including Snapchat, Facebook and Fortnite — CNN reported Oct. 21. Amazon said…

Terre Haute, Ind.-based Union Health is transitioning to an Epic EHR to reduce operating costs, boost data-sharing and improve cybersecurity, its chief executive told Becker’s. The two-hospital system is planning to go live with the new system in January 2027,…