Health Systems Must Remain Vigilant for COVID-19 Cases
To remain vigilant for coronavirus cases, health systems and hospitals must have surveillance efforts in place to detect surges of the disease in their patient populations, according to clinical leaders at Cincinnati-based UC Health and New York City-based NYU Langone Health.
Tampa General’s New AI Bot Makes a Connection With Patients
Aimee is an AI tool developed by Hyro and launched last year at TGH to address call center operations. It’s Aimee’s job to answer phone calls that the call center’s human operators can’t get to, and to quickly and efficiently direct the caller to the right resource.
The Exec: New Vanderbilt Health Physician-in-Chief Shares Keys to Critical Care Success
To provide effective critical care services, health systems and hospitals need to provide the latest guideline-directed care and assess outcomes, according the new physician-in-chief at Vanderbilt Health.
For Some Health Systems, AI Is Personal
It’s a strategy that many healthcare organizations – large and small – are embracing, especially as the AI market grows and the technology becomes more sophisticated. Health systems are turning to “bake-offs,” or small pilot projects that pit one product against another, or a few against each other.
How Hospital CEOs Can Build Cybersecurity Resilience
What were once isolated incidents have evolved into organized, well-funded attacks that are increasingly exploitative. At the same time, AI and widely available attack tools have lowered the barrier to entry, making phishing and social engineering harder to detect.
Nemours Moves Beyond the Hospital at Home Concept
The Hospital at Home model may not be everybody’s cup of tea, and several health systems and hospitals are finding value in less complex programs that focus on reducing hospital length of stay and improving home-based care.
How LifePoint Health Is Combating Nursing Workforce Challenges with Scalability in 2026
While CNOs try to build a more sustainable workforce, tightening budgets are putting more strain on health systems and higher costs of education are making it harder for people to become nurses or to advance their nursing careers.
5 Predictions for Healthcare AI in 2026
Hartford HealthCare’s Barry Stein says healthcare leaders need to see AI as part of an ecosystem. And it will only work in healthcare if it all the right safeguards are in place.
The Exec: Chief Clinical Officer Shares Keys to Clinical Integration Success
Peter Paige, chief clinical officer of Westchester Medical Center Health Network, says three factors drive successful clinical integration initiatives: inclusion, best practices, and explaining why clinical integration promotes patient-centric care and establishes a health system as a unified organization rather than a disparate collection of care sites.
Utah OKs Prescription Refills by AI
Utah officials announced on Tuesday a partnership with AI health platform Doctronic to enable patients living with chronic conditions to use the platform to refill prescriptions. Utah becomes the first state to test the technology for prescribing and the latest example of a state talking the lead in forging AI policy.