Use of ambient AI scribes was tied to a significant drop in clinician burnout after one month, a study published Oct. 2 in JAMA Network Open found.  The quality improvement study examined 263 physicians and nonphysician providers across six health…

The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a nonprofit organization that works to share threat intelligence, issued an alert Oct. 1 regarding LockBit 5.0, a ransomware variant that represents an elevated risk to healthcare and other enterprises. The variant is…

HHS has broken from the prior administration’s stance on artificial intelligence oversight, rejecting a private-sector vetting initiative known as the Coalition for Health AI, Politico reported. CHAI is backed by companies including Microsoft and health systems including Rochester Minn.-based Mayo…

Hospitals are full of improvised fixes — work-arounds nurses, therapists and other staff members invent to make a task safer or faster. At Radnor, Pa.-based Main Line Health, those solutions are coming out of the shadows. Through a program that…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic launched Mayo Clinic Platform_Orchestrate, a program aimed at helping biopharma and medical device companies accelerate clinical development.  The program offers collaborators access to Mayo Clinic’s de-identified clinical data, advanced AI tools, physician-scientist expertise and international partner…

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…