More than half of health systems are understaffed in surgical departments, and about 60% of operations start later than scheduled, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. These delays ripple outward, increasing costs, wasting supplies and adding to…

New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has developed an artificial intelligence-powered image analysis tool, MARQO, to accelerate cancer tissue processing. The tool works by extracting cellular and spatial information from tumor tissue slides. It supports immunohistochemistry…

A hack at Cass City, Mich.-based Aspire Rural Health System, which includes three critical access hospitals, has compromised the data of 138,386 individuals. An unauthorized party gained access to Aspire’s network sometime between Nov. 4 and Jan. 6, viewing and…

Charleston, S.C.-based Roper St. Francis Healthcare has debuted a cafe and gift shop powered by Amazon AI that allows customers to “just walk out” with their purchases. Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital in Charleston had a grand opening Aug. 25…

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center is planning to expand its DAX Copilot to inpatient clinicians as early as this fall. Here are five things to know:

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is creating and funding more companies as government support for research dries up, Global Venturing reported. The health system launched its Mayo Venture Partner program in May to commercialize Mayo innovations, coinvest in promising startups and…

While paper documentation still lingers in certain areas of health system operations, today’s physicians are largely spared from the manual record retrieval and clunky metal filing cabinets that were commonplace before the rise of the EHR. However, physicians still face…

Epic named 64 U.S. health systems to its Honor Roll for 2025. Launched in 2017, the EHR vendor’s voluntary Honor Roll Good Maintenance Grant Program provides financial incentives to health systems that adopt its best practices — and latest features.…

Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health is piloting a computer program developed with Northwestern University in Evanston that aims to detect acute respiratory distress syndrome, a common but hard-to-diagnose lung condition. The program, trained on clinical guidelines used by ICU physicians, scans…

Care New England moved nearly 160 IT staffers to IBM spinoff Kyndryl in 2023, a decision that CIO Tomas Gregorio said has made the Providence, R.I.-based system more agile. “Outsourcing has mostly met our goals to boost efficiency, service quality,…