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From Evaluation to Enterprise Value: How Health Systems Choose, Measure, and Expand Clinical AI

As clinical AI moves from isolated deployments to enterprise infrastructure, health system leaders face a more consequential question: which technologies deliver meaningful value today while continuing to evolve with the needs of the enterprise? Health systems must assess whether the…

Sep 29, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT

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Stephon Proctor, PhD, Associate Chief Health Informatics Officer, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Jill Reeves, Vice President of Quality, Baylor Scott & White
Nadim Ilbawi, MD, Vice President, Clinical Success & Strategy, Abridge

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WVU Medicine cut hospitalist queries 30% while severity capture improved

Query volume and documentation accuracy are supposed to move together. At one West Virginia University Health System hospital, they moved in opposite directions: hospitalist queries fell 30% in 2025 compared with 2024, while severity capture improved. That happened because WVU…

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California hospital CEO to retire after nearly 50 years

Richard Yochum plans to retire April 30 as president and CEO of Pomona (Calif.) Valley Hospital Medical Center after nearly 50 years with the organization. Mr. Yochum joined the hospital in the late 1970s as an administrator and held several…

ChatGPT for Healthcare adds Epic integration

OpenAI has added an Epic EHR integration and a public health data plugin to ChatGPT for Healthcare, with San Francisco-based UCSF Health serving as a pilot partner. The Epic integration lets authorized clinicians at healthcare organizations with supported Epic environments…

Aesto Health data breach hits 9.5 million patients: What to know

Aesto Health has reported a data breach affecting 9.54 million individuals to HHS, one of the largest healthcare breaches disclosed in 2026. Aesto, which provides data migration, EHR exchange and legacy data archiving services to healthcare providers, detected unauthorized activity…

SSM Health regional CFO heads to Trinity Health

Matt Kinsella, regional CFO within St. Louis-based SSM Health, is stepping into a new role at Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health. Mr. Kinsella has spent 18 years with SSM Health, he wrote in an Aug. 22 LinkedIn post. Most recently, he…

New CEO takes helm at ChristianaCare

Jenn Schwartz began serving as president and CEO of Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare Sept. 1, succeeding Janice Nevin, MD, who retired after nearly 25 years with the health system. Ms. Schwartz joined ChristianaCare in 2018 and most recently served as executive…

Teladoc names new CFO

Teladoc Health appointed Michael Grasher as CFO, effective Aug. 31. Mr. Grasher brings more than three decades of experience in the insurance and financial services sectors, including more than 12 years in CFO roles at public and privately held companies,…

Nevada health system reopens 2 facilities after fire evacuation

Northern Nevada Health System based in Reno has reopened two facilities Aug. 28 after evacuation orders related to the Hawk Fire prompted their closures. The emergency room at North Valleys, an extension of Northern Nevada Medical Center, resumed normal operations…

Prime to consolidate OB services at 3 Illinois hospitals

Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare plans to consolidate obstetrical services from three Illinois hospitals into two regional maternal care centers and commit $1 million in grants to community maternal health initiatives. The system will develop what it calls centers of excellence…