Across the country, the signs are clear — hospitals are closing beds, urgent care centers are cutting hours, and entire communities are losing access to critical services. It’s happening in rural towns and large metro areas alike. Provider shortages are…

The Digital Medicine Society has partnered with Google for Health and more than 30 healthcare, technology and policy organizations to release a new guide to help health systems implement AI responsibly. “The Playbook: Implementing AI in Healthcare,” released Oct. 8,…

A Penn Medicine pilot demonstrated the effectiveness of treating certain patients at home instead of admitting them to the hospital. Practical alternatives to hospitalization, or Path — ran from September 2024 to June 2025 at Philadelphia-based Penn Presbyterian Medical Center,…

The Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group, a public-private partnership comprising hundreds of entities such as hospitals and health systems, has released a toolkit to help providers assess and mitigate cybersecurity risks. The Sector Mapping and Risk Toolkit includes…

Two 17-year-old boys arrested by London police in connection with a cyberattack on a nursery school chain are being investigated for possible links to a Minnesota hospital hack, the Financial Times reported. The teens were placed into custody Oct. 7…

Healthcare organizations across Louisiana have launched MyChart Central statewide, a new Epic feature that gives patients a single, secure way to access their medical records. Epic announced the statewide launch Oct. 9. Here are five things to know:

As health systems look to adopt ambient AI to ease nursing documentation, it can be a challenge to get nurses to verbalize tasks they are accustomed to doing in their heads. Atrium Health Union, part of Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health,…

AI chatbots are increasingly citing health system websites in their answers to healthcare-related questions. But which organizations show up the most in these AI-generated responses? Marketing agency Outcomes Rocket analyzed 5,472 unique citations in August generated by ChatGPT, Google Gemini,…

U.S. healthcare providers and payers are increasing investments in AI aimed at improving profit margins, according to an Oct. 9 report from Bain & Company and KLAS Research. The “2025 Healthcare IT Spending” report found that 70% of providers and…

Hospitals and health systems are navigating unprecedented financial and operational pressures, from clinical burnout to increasing denials and documentation burdens. A recent session at Becker’s Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Meeting in Chicago highlighted how three leading systems…