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  1. To find success with AI, health IT leaders must understand its recent evolution

    The healthcare industry must simultaneously guard against technology outpacing its practical uses, says one physician and CIO.
  2. Joint Commission intros new Telehealth Accreditation Program

    The goal is to help ensure patient safety in telemedicine, and to help healthcare organizations standardize approaches to virtual care with an eye toward quality improvement and patient outcomes that are "consistent with traditional settings."
  3. HCA deploys AI from Augmedix for acute care documentation in EDs

    In what's billed as the first use of genAI-powered medical documentation in U.S. emergency departments, HCA Healthcare clinicians say a recent pilot with Augmedix shortened charting time and reduced their daily burden.
  4. National University Hospital launching AI-driven digestive centre

    The centre integrates three AI systems that work in tandem to enable the early detection and diagnosis of stomach cancers.
  5. Highlighting rural voices is imperative for equitable, bias-free healthcare AI

    That's what the innovation chief at TruBridge, a member of the Microsoft-backed TRAIN AI consortium, says, as he brings the rural healthcare point of view to the responsible artificial intelligence table.