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…

Demand for flexible, accessible care has skyrocketed since the Covid-19 pandemic, sparking an unprecedented increase in telehealth adoption. In response, hospitals, health systems and healthcare companies have dramatically expanded their telehealth offerings, introducing innovative solutions that bring high-quality care directly…

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health launched a virtual care program across 27 Good Samaritan skilled nursing and assisted living facilities in South Dakota, part of the health system’s $350 million virtual care initiative.  The My Care Line program connects Good…

The Department of Veterans Affairs will expand its Oracle Health EHR system to nine additional medical centers and their associated clinics in 2026. The new sites are in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Alaska. They include Cincinnati VAMC-Fort Thomas, Chillicothe VAMC,…

Amazon is rolling out pharmacy kiosks at One Medical clinics that will dispense medications to patients right after their appointments. The Amazon Pharmacy kiosks are set to debut in December at One Medical locations in the Los Angeles area, including…

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health has expanded its remote patient monitoring service to support patients with chronic conditions through text-based symptom tracking. The free program enables patients to self-report symptoms related to conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, blood…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic hosted an AI summit July 7-8 to explore how artificial intelligence could revolutionize healthcare and biomedicine, with a focus on patient-first innovation. The event emphasized AI’s potential to enhance patient outcomes across clinical areas, according to…

Ten health systems are teaming up to explore strategy, ethics, governance and scaling of agentic AI at their organizations. The first cohort of the collaborative, organized by digital transformation company Avia, will focus on using AI agents for nursing clinical…

Dayton Children’s Hospital said it resolved network outages and intermittent phone access that occurred after a generator test earlier on Oct. 8. The hospital announced the issue had been resolved in a news release issued around 1 p.m. All locations…