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JAMA Study: AI Scribes Deliver Modest EHR Time Savings Across 5 Major Health Systems

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JAMA Study: AI Scribes Deliver Modest EHR Time Savings Across 5 Major Health Systems

What You Should Know The Scale of the Study: In the first major multi-site, multi-vendor study of its kind published in JAMA, researchers analyzed data from 8,581 ambulatory clinicians (including 1,809 AI scribe adopters) across five major academic health systems: Mass General Brigham, Emory Healthcare, UCSF, Yale New Haven Health, and UC Davis. The systems utilized tools from Ambience, Nuance DAX Copilot, and Abridge.The Baseline ROI: Across the board, AI scribe adoption was associated with
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Ambience Healthcare Launches Chart Chat for Nursing with Cleveland Clinic Pilot

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Ambience Healthcare Launches Chart Chat for Nursing with Cleveland Clinic Pilot

What You Should Know The Launch: Ambience Healthcare has released Chart Chat for Nursing, the first EHR-integrated conversational AI tool designed specifically for inpatient nurses.The Pilot Partner: Cleveland Clinic, which recently selected Ambience for a massive enterprise-wide AI documentation rollout, is the first health system to pilot this new nursing-specific technology. The Workflow Solution Inpatient nurses are the central coordinators of care. Yet, to understand a patient's
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Aligning IT & Clinical Teams: How to Reduce Friction and Improve Communication

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Aligning IT & Clinical Teams: How to Reduce Friction and Improve Communication

Have you been part of the shift? Many IT teams are now more influential—and necessary—in the assessment, purchase decision and implementation of healthcare software. From technological advancements that require interconnectivity to AI, cybersecurity and more, your IT team is a crucial part of the solution. Can you imagine the impact you might have if you participated early in every software and key equipment conversation? While the shift from participation to an IT partnership is a welcome
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Mount Sinai Integrates OpenEvidence AI Platform into Epic EHR for Enterprise-Wide Clinical Decision Support

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Mount Sinai Researchers Develop AI-Driven Surgical Education Model to Improve Quality of Resident Training

What You Should Know The Deployment: Mount Sinai Health System, one of the nation's largest academic medical systems, is rolling out OpenEvidence, an AI-powered medical search and clinical decision-support platform, across its enterprise directly into the Epic EHR. The Strategic Shift: This marks OpenEvidence’s first enterprise-scale deployment that explicitly extends access across the entire clinical care team. Rather than restricting the AI to physicians, Mount Sinai is providing
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University of Toledo Health to Deploy Nabla’s Ambient AI Documentation in Epic EHR

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University of Toledo Health to Deploy Nabla's Ambient AI Documentation in Epic EHR

What You Should Know The Deployment: University of Toledo Health (UToledo Health) is deploying Nabla, a leading ambient AI clinical assistant, to hundreds of its physicians and advanced practice providers following a highly successful pilot program.The Core Integration: Nabla integrates directly into Epic, allowing clinicians across primary care and surgical specialties to generate structured clinical notes natively within their existing EHR workflows. The 8-Week Turnaround To
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HHS Reverses 2024 Tech Reorganization: Why HHS Just Stripped AI and Cyber Operations Out of the ONC

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SAMHSA and ONC Invest $20M in Behavioral Health IT Initiative

What You Should Know The Reversal: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is officially reversing a controversial 2024 reorganization that consolidated major enterprise technology roles under the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).The Name Change: The 2024 initiative dually titled the ONC as the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ASTP/ONC). That dual title is dead. The office returns to its original,
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Ensemble and Cohere Partner to Build First RCM-Native Large Language Model for Healthcare

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Ensemble and Cohere Partner to Build First RCM-Native Large Language Model for Healthcare

What You Should Know The Announcement: Ensemble, a top end-to-end revenue cycle managed services provider, and enterprise AI company Cohere are expanding their partnership to build the healthcare industry’s first RCM-native large language model (LLM).The Native LLM Solution: Instead of teaching the AI the rules via prompts, Ensemble and Cohere are fine-tuning a fully custom model from the ground up. It is trained on real RCM tasks, documented procedures, and deep operator expertise to power
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Hartford HealthCare and K Health Launch PatientGPT to Integrate AI with Medical Records

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Hartford HealthCare and K Health Launch PatientGPT to Integrate AI with Medical Records

What You Should Know The Launch: Hartford HealthCare (HHC) and clinical AI company K Health have launched PatientGPT, a new AI tool embedded directly within the HHC patient portal and app. It is currently rolling out in a limited beta phase.Fixing the "Dead End": The platform is designed to seamlessly connect patients to actual care. If the AI interaction indicates a need for a provider, patients can instantly connect to HHC 24/7 virtual care or schedule an in-person visit, bridging the gap
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Clinical AI Platform Avo Secures $10M, Announces EBSCO DynaMed Partnership

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Clinical AI Platform Avo Secures $10M, Announces EBSCO DynaMed Partnership

What You Should Know The Funding: Clinical AI platform Avo has raised a $10M Series A financing round. The round was led by Noro-Moseley Partners, with participation from AlleyCorp and other strategic investors.The Solution: Avo acts as an intelligent overlay within major EHRs like Epic, athenahealth, and MEDITECH. Using AI copilots (like Chart Assist and Ask Avo), it synthesizes patient data, drafts documentation, and pulls external guidelines directly into the physician's immediate
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IKS Health Acquihires AI Startup ThinkDTM to Transform Patient Access Solutions

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IKS Health Acquihires AI Startup ThinkDTM to Transform Patient Access Solutions

What You Should Know The Deal: Global care enablement leader IKS Health has executed a strategic "acquihire" of ThinkDTM, an AI-native product and digital services company.The Leadership Shuffle: ThinkDTM Founder Tij Bedi is joining the IKS Health C-suite as the new Executive Vice President and General Manager of Patient Access and Innovation. His entire team of AI engineers is coming with him. Leadership Appointment Tij Bedi, the Founder of ThinkDTM, is joining IKS Health as the
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