What You Should Know:
- ECU Health, a rural health system serving 29 counties in eastern North Carolina, has partnered with Artisight to introduce Smart Hospital technology across its facilities, starting with five hospitals and expanding to more in the coming year.
- This new platform will make telehealth services more efficient by expanding specialized care from ECU Health Medical Center to patients in ECU Health hospitals across eastern North Carolina and improve the
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Beyond Transcription: 3 Ways AI Can Automate Full Healthcare Workflows
In 2024, two in three physicians reported using AI – representing a wider shift in the healthcare industry to drive efficiency and generate better outcomes for patients with new technology advancements. But many of these use cases have been limited to administrative tasks like voice transcription.
Given all the data that healthcare systems, hospitals and clinics are already gathering as part of their everyday work, the opportunity for AI to reimagine the way they operate–from optimized
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Inova Health to Deploy Signal 1’s AI Management Platform to Centralize Governance and Track Value of AI Portfolio
What You Should Know:
- Inova Health, a nonprofit health system, has adopted Signal 1’s AI Management Platform to centralize the oversight, governance, and performance monitoring of its growing portfolio of artificial intelligence tools.
- The move is critical for ensuring that every AI solution deployed is safe, equitable, and compliant with standards like those set by the Joint Commission. The platform will provide essential visibility, automated monitoring, and impact
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The Clinical AI Paradox: Why Data Scarcity and Synthetic Over-Reliance Threaten Healthcare LLM Revolution
Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly moving from the lab to the administrative suite, promising to revolutionize efficiency in healthcare by automating clinical documentation, streamlining scheduling, and accelerating claim processing. For an industry buckling under administrative overhead, the immediate value proposition is immense.
However, beneath this promise lies a fundamental vulnerability that threatens to undermine the entire AI revolution in medicine: the quality, diversity, and
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Commure Autonomous Coding Scales to 200+ Sites with OBHG: Clinicians Reduce Charge Time by 83%
What You Should Know:
- Commure, a healthcare technology company, and Ob Hospitalist Group (OBHG), the nation's largest provider of OB/GYNs, have formed a strategic partnership to deploy Commure’s Autonomous Coding solution across nearly 2,000 clinicians and over 200 care sites.
- Early results are compelling: within three months, clinicians reduced the time spent entering charges by an impressive 83%, with AI now coding over 85% of all charges. This deployment strengthens
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Clinician Turnover Crisis: KLAS Report Identifies Dissatisfied Leadership as the Top Predictor of Physician and Nurse Attrition
What You Should Know:
- A new report from the KLAS Arch Collaborative finds that dissatisfaction with organizational leadership is the primary non-personal reason at-risk clinicians plan to leave their jobs.
- The dissatisfaction is strongly correlated with a poor EHR experience , meaning IT investment is now a critical leadership strategy for reducing costly clinician turnover. Healthcare organizations face significant financial risk, as losing a physician can cost up to
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URMC and GE HealthCare Announce 7-Year Care Alliance to Deploy AI Imaging and Theranostics Center of Excellence
What You Should Know:
- The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and GE HealthCare have established a seven-year Care Alliance to enhance system-wide efficiencies and patient access.
- The partnership will deploy new, AI-enabled imaging solutions, including one of the first Aurora SPECT/CTs in the U.S., and standardize patient monitoring with the Carescape™ platform. Crucially, URMC is working to acquire an on-site cyclotron to enable in-house production of radioisotopes for
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Sleep Cycle Launches Luma, a Proprietary AI-Powered Sleep Coach
What You Should Know:
- Sleep Cycle, a leading sleep technology company, today announced the launch of Luma, a proprietary AI-powered sleep coach designed to revolutionize how users understand and improve their sleep.
- Built on Sleep Cycle’s proprietary machine learning and audio analysis technology, Luma now takes the app’s data visualization one step further by providing context, clear explanations, and step-by-step recommendations that evolve with each
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Transact + CBORD Rebrands to Illumia: Greg Brown Appointed as New CEO
What You Should Know:
- Transact + CBORD, following their merger in 2024, will officially rebrand as Illumia in March 2026, creating a unified technology partner for healthcare, senior living, and higher education institutions.
- To lead this strategic consolidation, the company has appointed Greg Brown, former CEO of Udemy, as its new Chief Executive Officer. Brown's mandate is to leverage his expertise in scaling SaaS businesses and integrating AI to transform mission-critical
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The Hidden Value of HTM: How Healthcare Technology Management Directly Impacts Hospital Financial Performance and Patient Satisfaction
Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) departments have been thought of as a background operation, being called in when devices fail or compliance checks are due, rather than partners in shaping hospital operations. However, HTM has a direct line to hospital performance, impacting financial outcomes, asset utilization, clinical safety, and cyber programs in ways that hospital executives should no longer ignore.
By inviting the HTM teams to be at the table within different hospital operational
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