The healthcare AI era has given health systems too many experiments. Moving AI from pilot to practice has become a defining challenge for digital leaders in 2026, with most organizations still working to close the gap between promising local deployments…
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Biohub, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health and technology companies announced an expansion of an international effort to generate open biological datasets for predictive AI models. The effort represents $1.8 billion in funding, data, computing resources…
Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham has formally launched The Cooperative, an initiative building healthcarewide models to protect patients from extreme heat and poor air quality. The health system unveiled the initiative Sept. 22 at The Cooperative’s first Innovation Forum. The…
Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has established the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Institute for Evidence, Innovation and Policy. The institute expands BIDMC’s Smith Center for Outcomes Research into a multidisciplinary research enterprise made up of several centers.…
If last quarter’s health IT theme was that the hard part of AI isn’t the technology, this quarter’s was that someone has to pay for it — and hospital CIOs started acting like it. From July through September, the leaders…
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Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Health and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth have received a $20 million gift from Richard “Dick” Levy, PhD, to fund an initiative to shift care from the hospital to patients’ homes. Dr. Levy is a…
Meta will add FDA-cleared hearing aid software to supported AI glasses in the U.S. later this year, the company said at its recent Meta Connect 2026 event. The feature, called Hearing Enhancement, is intended for adults 18 and older with…
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare expanded its AI-powered Nurse Handoff tool to 15 additional Florida hospitals in September. The tool, according to a Sept. 25 news release, organizes information from a patient’s EHR into a shift report for the incoming nurse.…
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said AI could help address chronic disease, which he described as necessary to lowering healthcare costs. Doing so would require consolidating health data sets and making them readable, he said, according to Politico. Mr.…
Health systems are expanding partnerships with Big Tech companies as they race to deploy AI, modernize infrastructure and improve patient care. Here are seven collaborations involving Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Nvidia reported on in the past month: 1. Google…