The American Hospital Association and Microsoft have introduced new and updated offerings for rural hospitals as part of the latter’s “Rural Health Resiliency” program. The program provides free and discounted services to eligible designated critical access hospitals and rural emergency…

Hospitals are investing heavily in artificial intelligence, digital assistants and new documentation tools. Yet the success of these innovations does not hinge on the software itself. It depends on whether frontline clinicians believe in them — and more often than…

University of Rochester (New York) Medical Center has begun implementing a generative AI platform from Qualified Health. URMC and its UR Medicine network will use the platform across its eight hospitals, NCI-designated cancer center, more than 20 urgent care centers,…

Epic is encouraging health systems to turn on the EHRs across their enterprises all at once, though some organizations are sticking with a phased rollout. “Implementations have been getting bigger, faster and better,” Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner said…

Health systems have had to scramble to discharge or move their hospital-at-home patients as CMS reimbursement for the program lapsed with the federal government shutdown. Healthcare organizations approved for the CMS waiver to provide acute hospital care at home had…

North Korean nationals seeking illicit remote employment have increasingly targeted the healthcare sector, according to a Sept. 30 report from Okta Threat Intelligence. Here are five things to know:

New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is collaborating with ALIGNMT AI to pilot a governance platform for responsible deployment of artificial intelligence in oncology. ALIGNMT AI joined the Memorial Sloan Kettering Innovation Hub to support operationalization of the…

Renton, Wash.-based Providence and Compassus have expanded their joint venture to provide home health, hospice, palliative and personal care services in California, creating a network of 19 locations across the state. The new entity will operate as Providence at Home…

Hospitals are drowning in admin. Nearly one-third of the workforce in U.S. hospitals and physician offices is non-clinical staff, and administrative costs top $450 billion a year. Armies of people spend their days answering phones, calling insurers, and chasing claims.…

The Cancer AI Alliance has launched a collaborative AI platform for cancer research. The platform enables participating cancer centers to train AI models on millions of clinical data points without moving individual data outside institutional firewalls. It is designed to…