Time has named four healthcare and health tech leaders to its 2026 TIME100 AI list of the most influential people in AI. Oracle co-founder, chair and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison made the Aug. 27 list for the company’s all-in…
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Virginia will receive $122 million through the federal Rural Health Transformation Program to expand rural healthcare access, train the health workforce and fund innovation projects across the state. Here is where the funding is going: The funding stems from the…
Epic built its business on one product: the EHR. But some CIOs say the company is trying to be the answer to nearly everything else, too — and they’re not all sure it should be. At its Aug. 17-20 Users…
At Tufts Medicine’s MelroseWakefield Hospital in Melrose, Mass., discharge planners rarely struggled to find the community services an older patient needed to go home safely. The harder part was getting the patient to say yes. That distinction sits behind a…
OpenAI and Microsoft joined more than 100 technology and cybersecurity companies in a public letter warning that hospitals and other critical infrastructure face a fast-approaching surge in AI-enabled cyberattacks. The letter, posted to OpenAI’s website Aug. 27, calls for a…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is sending $93.3 million to Georgia through the federal Rural Health Transformation Program to expand telehealth services, advance surgical robotics and modernize rural healthcare access statewide. The funding, according to an Aug. 27…
Five finalists have been chosen from Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic’s nurse-led AI agent competition field and are now moving into proof-of-concept development Mayo received more than 450 submissions to the competition, which challenged nurses to design largely autonomous AI solutions…
The Drug Enforcement Administration has submitted a final rule on telehealth prescribing of controlled substances to the White House for regulatory review. The DEA filed the rule Aug. 25 and listed it as “economically significant,” an Office of Management and…
A $150,000 check from Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine doesn’t buy a startup much more than a foot in the door. Getting further — to an actual pilot inside one of the country’s largest academic health systems — requires clearing three specific…
Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health raised hospice consultation rates from 44% to 84% by redesigning its EHR to automatically link hospice consultation orders to comfort measures orders, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. The study tracked more…