How to Keep Clinicians Satisfied, the Ascension Way
Ascension is pushing AI beyond note-taking to tackle the billing, order entry and nursing handoff work still weighing on clinicians after a patient visit ends.
6 Ways UnityPoint Health Is Trying to Make Clinicians’ Jobs Easier
UnityPoint Health's chief medical officer, Gregory Johnson, shared several ways the system is using AI to lift administrative burden off clinicians and get them back to patient care — including ambient scribing, real-time capacity tracking and AI-powered chart review.
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From Blind Spots to Better Outcomes: How SNF Data Transparency Strengthens LTSS
What if health plans could identify member decline before an avoidable hospitalization occurs? Real-time clinical visibility into long-stay SNF members uncovers risk earlier and drives better outcomes.
What Happens When Patients Trust AI Over Their Doctor?
As patients increasingly bring AI chatbot advice into exam rooms, where does liability land when that advice goes wrong? Health law attorney Meghan O'Connor said the answer still isn’t clear, but silence is the riskiest response for providers.
Assured Health Secures $19M to Get Providers In-Network Faster with Agentic AI
Assured Health raised $19 million for its AI agents that verify provider credentials and manage insurance enrollment for health systems and group practices. The startup said it can cut a process that usually takes months down to days.
The Same AI That Helps Patients Is Being Used to Attack Them, Hospital Exec Says
As hospitals increasingly use AI to improve patient care, the same technology is being used by hackers and nation-states to launch faster, more sophisticated attacks. Karen Habercoss, chief information security and privacy officer at the University of Chicago Medicine, explained how her health system is building a governance structure to manage that risk.
Kaiser Nurses Protest CEO’s AHA Appearance Over AI Concerns
As Kaiser Permanente CEO Greg Adams touted the success of his organization’s value-based care models at the AHA Leadership Summit in Denver, Kaiser nurses outside protested the health system's AI strategy. They claim they're being excluded from decisions about the technology.
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Closing the Quality-Affordability Gap in Workplace Mental Health
In an interview, Kyan Health Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer Konstantin Struck discussed how Kyan gives mid-market and enterprise employers access to premium workforce mental healthcare, at a price point that is affordable.
Documentation Tools Aren’t Just for Doctors: Inside Reid Health’s Deployment of Abridge’s Nurse Tech
Rural health system Reid Health is using Abridge's AI-powered documentation tech to reduce burnout among nurses. It appears to be working — after-shift charting is down by up to 45 minutes, and the RN vacancy rate has been cut more than in half, said Misti Foust-Cofield, Reid’s chief nursing officer.
How Is Mayo Clinic Using AI in Its Revenue Cycle?
Mayo Clinic is deploying AI across its revenue cycle operations, but revenue cycle chair Todd Manion said he's skeptical that these functions will be fully automated anytime soon.
What Is AI Getting Right — and Wrong — in Healthcare’s Revenue Cycle?
AI hasn't solved all the problems plaguing healthcare's revenue cycle — but R1's Lee Kupferman says that it is getting closer, one gray area at a time.
ChatGPT Wants to Improve Your Health — ChatCPR Might Actually Save Your Life
Researchers from UC San Diego, Johns Hopkins and UPMC have developed an AI-powered CPR coaching tool called ChatCPR that outperformed human 911 dispatchers in guiding bystanders through CPR. The team released the tool as an open-source resource, with the hopes that the right companies and emergency-response organizations can deploy it broadly.
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Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
IKS Health Acquires ARAI to Build Out Specialized AI Stack
IKS Health acquired healthcare AI startup ARAI to strengthen the technology underpinning its automation tools, as well as reduce its dependence on third-party AI models.
Pennsylvania Sues Chatbot Over Claims It Impersonates Doctors
Pennsylvania sued Character.ai, alleging one of the startup’s AI chatbots illegally practiced medicine by posing as a licensed psychiatrist. The case marks the second state lawsuit against the startup and highlights growing regulatory scrutiny of AI chatbot platforms and their safety guardrails.
Why Healthcare AI Still Can’t Scale — and How Nvidia & Hoppr Are Trying to Fix It
Nvidia and Hoppr are betting that healthcare AI will scale not through standalone applications, but through a new infrastructure layer that lets providers develop and deploy their own imaging models.
Why Some Hospitals Are Betting on Midstream Health to Help Eliminate Waste
Midstream Health is taking a bit of a different approach to healthcare AI by focusing on reducing hospitals’ costs rather than boosting their revenue. The startup uses AI to identify savings opportunities across fragmented spending data, which helps health systems like Mount Sinai and CommonSpirit quickly improve their purchasing decisions.
Why Innovaccer Is Pouring $250M into Its Agentic AI Platform
Innovaccer is committing $250 million to expand its AI agent platform, which automates workflows across areas like prior authorization, revenue cycle management and population health. The move comes amid an ongoing debate over whether administrative AI tools can ultimately reduce costs for providers.