Ai In Healthcare

Most reprocessing audit gaps trace back to training, turnover and leadership

Joint Commission survey findings, CDC guidance and a 189-cycle audit study point to the same weak spots in instrument reprocessing, and few of them are

From Data to Decisions: Leadership, Trust, and AI in Healthcare with Dr. Julia Rehman

Learn how healthcare leaders can integrate AI effectively while maintaining governance, human judgment, and frontline staff engagement in clinical decisions.

Dr. Sotirios Stathakis: A TheraPanacea Customer Interview

Dr. Stathakis explains how Mary Bird Perkins adopted TheraPanacea's AI tools to streamline cancer treatment planning and improve operational efficiency.

Dr. Dana Rosencranz - Cancer Survivor and Chief Medical Physicist

Chief Medical Physicist at Texas Oncology combines breast cancer survivor insights with expertise in AI integration and personalized cancer treatment.

OpenAI Links ChatGPT to Epic EHRs, Adds Health Data Plugin

OpenAI has connected ChatGPT for Healthcare to Epic EHRs and launched a plugin linking clinicians to nine public healthcare data sources.

OpenAI put 10,000 AI agents on Navier–Stokes. Healthcare R&D should pay attention

OpenAI's proposed Navier–Stokes proof signals a new research stack for medical modeling, life sciences and scientific software.

Who's Really Running Healthcare? (When Physicians No Longer Have a Voice) - Dr. Krishna Vedala

Explore why physicians feel disengaged from healthcare organizations, how primary care mismanagement drives burnout, and AI's role in returning time to…

Hospitals need a shortlist as cardiology AI clearances hit 225

Cardiology is still the No. 2 specialty for FDA-cleared AI, with 225 tools when imaging is counted. That growth is pushing tighter vendor evaluation and tighter

OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Healthcare is getting wired into Epic

OpenAI’s Epic integration is read-only, supports in-chart workflows, and ships with audit logs and RBAC. The operational work is permissions, connectors, and va

MD&M West 2026 exhibitors pitch audit-ready, AI-ready device platforms

MD&M West exhibitors are pitching AI-ready computing, test capacity, and cleanroom throughput as the new schedule risk in medtech programs.

A 2017 telehealth study found higher spending, not savings, as ASC investment rises

A Health Affairs claims analysis found 88% of DTC telehealth visits were new utilization and net spend rose $45 per user, a useful benchmark as payers and emplo

Smart ICU integration cut errors and ambient AI reached 90% of notes, once both fed the EMR

New HIMSS26 APAC case studies show big gains, up to 70% fewer admin errors, when device data and notes flow into the EMR.

Gartner says AI budgets are growing faster than the rules to control them

Gartner data shows AI spend is up faster than overall budgets, while many organizations still lack FinOps guardrails.

How Targeted Patient Education Improves Outcomes - Stephen Page, SmarterHealth.AI

Learn how targeted patient and provider education with AI can reduce preventable readmissions, improve health equity, and drive measurable clinical and…

Cleveland Clinic's 900-person AI summit signals a new buying cycle for patient routing systems

Cleveland Clinic's AI Summit, plus its $50M "Digital Front Door" initiative, is pushing AI from pilots into patient routing and access systems.

Medicare sets $137.53 maximum add-on payment per eligible inpatient case for CT triage AI

Medicare’s NTAP for Aidoc’s CT Body triage puts a per-case dollar figure on radiology AI, and forces hospitals to treat workflow, governance, and coding as one

FDA’s Oct. 19 AI docket forces medtech teams to write tests, not slide decks

The FDA’s generative AI discussion paper points to competency-style evaluation and heavier postmarket monitoring, pushing vendors and hospital buyers to demand

SILMO Paris 2026 brings smart glasses and AI into the purchasing cycle

SILMO expects nearly 34,000 visitors and 950 exhibitors. The agenda signals where optical retailers and labs will spend next: AI imaging workflows, smart-glasse

Epic is turning its EHR into an AI command center, and CIO plans just got tighter

UGM 2026 put Epic’s agent tools, Cosmos data scale, and new APIs on a faster release track. For health system IT, the decision is shifting from pilots to platfo

Cleveland Clinic’s 10-year Siemens imaging deal makes technologist training and licensing the bottleneck

A new 10-year Cleveland Clinic and Siemens Healthineers pact expands imaging upgrades and on-site staffing, putting technologist training and scope-of-practice

Adonis’ new CPO and first CRO signals AI RCM vendors are shifting from pilots to platform operating models

Adonis named a CPO and promoted a CRO after a $40M Series C and 4x revenue year, a sign health systems will see tighter roadmaps and tougher value proof in AI R

Bobby Hilliard - Board Chair, HealthConnect Texas

Board chair, Bobby Hilliard shares his thoughts on Healthconnect Texas.

Ambient AI is moving from clinician productivity to consent and revenue-cycle controls

Two August 2026 reads, one operational signal: ambient documentation is spreading fast, and hospitals now have to govern microphones and models like any other c

Health tech AI investment is accelerating into chronic care, home health, and workforce training in 2026

Four major health tech funding rounds totaling $335M closed in June, targeting chronic disease management, AI scheduling, home care ops, and workforce training.

Health systems are spending big on EHRs and AI while governance gaps widen

Epic projects running into nine figures, AI reimbursement still unresolved, and most hospitals without dedicated AI testing platforms shape today's health IT landscape.

Health IT spending, AI gaps, and Epic price tags signal a volatile 2026 for hospital CIOs

Children's Minnesota's $175M Epic transition, AI testing gaps, and CIO career moves highlight the operational pressures facing hospital IT in 2026.

AI scribes and startup pipelines are reshaping how health systems and tech investors evaluate AI in 2026

From patient consent debates over AI scribes to Y Combinator's AI-first startup thesis, the pressure on enterprise health and tech operators is intensifying.

Health systems keep pouring money into Epic as margins tighten and AI governance lags behind

EHR spend stays elevated even under financial pressure, while most health systems still lack the AI testing infrastructure to govern the tools they're deploying

Hinge Health's $105M acquisition of Cylinder signals a new era of digital-first, whole-person care platforms

Hinge Health is buying GI-focused Cylinder Health for $105M, while health systems and AI vendors push deeper into clinical decision support and cybersecurity re

Hackensack Meridian Health becomes first U.S. system to earn Joint Commission AI certification as hospitals race to prove responsible deployment

Hackensack Meridian Health's landmark AI certification signals that governance and safety frameworks are now the real bottleneck for enterprise health systems s