“I’m a poor career planner,” Geoff Patterson said — not exactly the sentence you’d expect from an executive at one of the nation’s largest health systems. Mr. Patterson, senior vice president and chief digital and information officer of Detroit-based Henry…
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The pipeline of AI tools seeking a foothold inside health systems has never been longer or faster-moving. For CIOs and CMIOs, the hardest question is no longer whether to pilot new technology, but how to know when a pilot has…
Most people think telemedicine is a pandemic-era invention. The truth is more interesting, and more instructive for where we need to go next. The story begins not in a hospital, but in outer space. Where Telemedicine Originated In 1960, NASA…
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…
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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…
Time and data firm Statista recognized 500 companies across six categories in their 2026 World’s Top HealthTech Companies list published Sept. 16. In partnership with data firm Statista, Time determined the World’s Top HealthTech Companies of 2026 list by evaluating…
Before Margaret Lozovatsky, MD, took over as chief digital information officer of Dayton, Ohio-based Premier Health earlier this year, she raised something with her CEO before she agreed to the role: She wanted to keep practicing medicine. Dr. Lozovatsky is…
$150 Billion in Missed Appointments: Why No-Shows Keep Happening, and What Actually Stops Them
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No-shows are one of the most predictable sources of revenue loss in healthcare, and one of the most preventable. Yet most practices still treat them as an unavoidable cost of doing business rather than a solvable operational problem. The numbers…