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A multi-hospital, 23,132-patient study led by RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (DOI: 10.1056/AIoa2500973) evaluated an enterprise rollout of the Epic Deterioration Index (EDI).Following implementation across 11 acute care hospitals, in-hospital mortality among high-risk patients (EDI score >60)dropped from 23.1% to 18.6%, representing an 18% reduction in the risk-adjusted odds of death.Rather than relying solely on passive EHR
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Nabla Launches On-Device Clinical Dictation App Native to macOS and Integrated with Epic
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Nabla has launched Nabla Dictation for Mac, an AI-native clinical speech-to-text application engineered specifically to run locally on Apple Silicon hardware.Rebuilt using Swift and Apple’s Core ML Tools, the platform executes speech activation, speech-to-text, and medical vocabulary post-processing on the Apple Neural Engine—eliminating cloud token costs, network latency, and server-side audio processing.Integrates natively into Epic workflows (including Epic Hyperdrive
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We Spent a Decade Filling EHRs. It’s Time to Make Them Pay Us Back.
A few years ago, a physician I worked with told me that her young daughter had started greeting her at the door with a question: “Mommy, how many charts do you have to finish today?” Her daughter had learned that the higher the number, the less of her mother she was going to get that night.
That story has stayed with me through more than two decades in clinical informatics, because it captures something the data has been telling us for years. Recent research from the American Medical
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Lapsi Health Partners with Redox to Integrate Keikku Clinical AI Platform Directly Into EHR Infrastructure
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Dutch-American clinical AI developer Lapsi Health has partnered with healthcare data interoperability leader Redox to natively connect Lapsi’s Keikku Clinical Platform into health system Electronic Health Record (EHR) environments.Addresses "point-solution fatigue" by embedding ambient clinical documentation, contextual reference, and diagnostic insights directly into existing chart workflows so clinicians never have to leave the EHR.Taps into the Redox Connection
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MEDITECH Partners with SPiER to Expand Expanse Depression and Suicide Prevention Toolkit
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MEDITECH has expanded its Depression and Suicide Prevention Toolkit within the Expanse EHR platform, embedding gold-standard clinical workflows to mitigate suicide risk across inpatient, ambulatory, and emergency departments.MEDITECH collaborated with the non-profit SPiER to secure copyrights and directly integrate validated, evidence-based tools into point-of-care clinical workflows.The toolkit leverages embedded surveillance tools to push real-time notifications to care
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KLAS Arch Collaborative 2026 Report: Early Insights into Epic AI Adoption and Clinician Experience
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Early metrics from the KLAS Arch Collaborative 2026 report confirm that clinicians using at least one artificial intelligence tool score 7 percentage points higher in believing the EHR enables operational efficiency compared to non-users.While clinical satisfaction surges as practitioners adopt up to four distinct AI tools, it rapidly plateaus; introducing five or more applications adds workflow clutter and digital noise rather than driving incremental value.A massive
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KLAS Releases Global Hospital EHR Market Share 2026 Report: Purchasing Decisions Hit 5-Year Low
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The KLAS Healthcare IT Insights division has published its flagship Global Hospital EHR Market Share 2026 report, revealing that total global EHR purchasing decisions plummeted to an almost five-year marketplace low.A strict capital tightening is reshaping international margins; the volume of impacted healthcare facilities (447 hospitals) and active clinical beds (81,261) represented the lowest deployment volume tracked by KLAS in at least a decade.Monolithic
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KLAS Arch Collaborative Releases Clinician EHR Experience 2026 Impact Report
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The KLAS Arch Collaborative has released its Clinician EHR Experience 2026: State of the Industry impact report, tracking EHR satisfaction benchmarks across 92 healthcare organizations and over 121,000 clinicians.A major clinical sentiment gap persists between disciplines: while 22% of physicians report an "Elite" (Level 6) EHR experience, only 12% of nurses achieve the same tier, with nurses far more likely to remain stuck in "Basic" or "Struggling"
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xCures Raises $46M to Turn Unstructured EHR Data Into Actionable Clinical Intelligence
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Healthcare data pioneer xCures has announced the completion of a $46M Series B financing round led by Innovius Capital, with heavy participation from iGrow, GKCC, Spring Mountain Capital, and existing institutional investors.The milestone round pushes the company's total institutional funding past $76M, providing the working capital needed to scale its proprietary data-structuring platform across multiple medical disciplines.The technology targets a massive operational
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Oracle Health Partners with Theator to Deliver AI-Native Surgical Video Analytics and Automated EHR Documentation
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Enterprise cloud and EHR giant Oracle Health has formalized a strategic U.S. partnership with surgical computer vision pioneer Theator to deliver AI-powered surgical intelligence directly to hospital networks.The platform addresses a critical documentation deficit: traditional operative reports written from a surgeon’s memory hours or days post-procedure achieve a mere 72.8% accuracy rate, according to peer-reviewed research in the Journal of the American College of
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