Eight years ago, Michigan Medicine’s head of pathology walked into the CIO’s office with a number that reframed the hospital’s entire technology budget conversation: The department alone would need 11 petabytes of storage to run digital pathology at scale, at…

Techstars and the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group selected nine startups for a healthcare accelerator focused on emerging technologies and care delivery. More than 1,200 startups applied for the 2026 Techstars Healthcare Accelerator powered by Permanente Medicine Mid-Atlantic States, according to…

Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center Health Network is in the middle of an Epic EHR implementation that’s expected to do more than unify patient records — it will eliminate 88 separate software applications the health system has accumulated over years…

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health is requiring executive sponsors to commit to funding successful artificial intelligence pilots before the health system evaluates launching them. “We’re not evaluating launching a pilot unless the executive sponsor commits to paying for it if…

Health systems are pushing more care into patients’ homes. At the same time, several systems in 2026 have closed, suspended or reduced services across the broader home-based care landscape. While some health systems have launched and expanded hospital-at-home programs this…

More than 230 healthcare organizations, including 35 health systems, are urging CMS not to finalize proposed 2027 restrictions on remote patient monitoring. The Sept. 14 sign-on letter, organized by the Alliance for Connected Care, represents an expansion from an earlier…

Health system CIOs have spent the past several years building AI programs around clinicians. Governance committees, intake dashboards, open office hours, ambient tools — the clinical side of the house has been the primary beneficiary of digital investment. For Donna…

“AI could kill all humans.” “AI could cause human extinction.” “AI is moving too fast to control.” Maybe. But I’m a physician, and I spend my days worrying about a threat to human life that isn’t theoretical. It is already…

Donna Roach has a simple way to measure whether a health system CIO has built the influence the role now requires. “The most successful CIO will be the one who has the relationships with their executive peers,” said Ms. Roach,…

More than 18 months into building AI agents, Rush's CIO says the tooling to model what they cost does not exist — so the control has to be the workforce.