Technology In Healthcare

Eye telemedicine hits limits without home retinal imaging

A video platform gets an eye clinic to its first tier of telehealth patients. Patients who need regular OCT scans stay out of reach until a camera is in their

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.

Two Radiology Deals Signal Focus on Coverage, Not Scanners

Radiology Business reports that Colorado Imaging Associates and TRA formed Affiliated Radiology, while Align Capital agreed to buy Heritage Imaging.

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.

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.

CMS Sets $90-$420 Per-Patient Payments for Chronic Care Tech

CMS's ACCESS model pays $90 to $420 per Medicare beneficiary yearly for tech-supported chronic care, tied to outcomes, HFMA reported.

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…

MRI segmentation models can now label 80 structures, but deployment is the hard part

Open-source MRI segmentation models can segment up to 80 structures. For imaging and oncology ops, deployment is the hard part.

ADHA shifts My Health Record to multi-supplier ops as Accenture signs new 3-year contract

Australia’s ADHA is moving My Health Record to a multi-supplier operating model as Accenture continues support under a new three-year contract. In the same week

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

The EU’s MDR delay buys time, but it won’t clear your commissioning bottleneck

The MDR timeline extension shifts EU medtech planning out to 2027–2028. The next constraint is how fast teams can validate and ramp automated lines without “pow

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.

ADA endorsement puts Weave on the shortlist for dental front-office tech

Weave’s ADA endorsement and its Practice Analytics release tighten the spec for phone, texting, scheduling, and insurance workflows.

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

Real-time radiation dose tracking is moving from badges to live dashboards in procedure rooms

Radiation Detection Company’s Radiant updates dose every 0.2 seconds, while GE HealthCare pushes browser-based imaging access, changing how hospitals govern rad

Microsoft’s 60% Dragon Copilot discount forces a new way to measure digital health ROI

As Microsoft and Pivot Point push Dragon Copilot into rural hospitals, Europe’s EDiHTA work shows why buyers now need a repeatable way to price evidence.

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

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

Connected Across Texas - Leah Barton

Learn about Harris County Public Health's Harris Collaborative and how it connects health initiatives across Texas from leader Leah Barton.

Sobi CEO Guido Oelkers named BioNTech's next chief executive, targeting multiple approved products by 2030

BioNTech taps Sobi CEO Guido Oelkers as its next chief executive, with a mandate to turn a deep oncology pipeline into multiple approved products by 2030.

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.