What You Should Know:
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) has launched a new market-based research challenge called the Crushing Fraud Chili Cook-Off Competition. The goal of the competition is to use explainable artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models to identify anomalies in Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) claims data that can be translated into new indicators of fraud.
- The challenge also seeks scalable technologies that can reduce
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How Unified Security Platforms and AI Are Reducing False Alarms in Healthcare
False alarms in the healthcare setting directly impact the efficiency of security resources and the patient and staff experience. A recent study published in Science Direct noted that approximately 80%–90% of alarms in the clinical setting are false. The same study found that 65% of ICU nurses agreed that disruptive alarms can affect patient care, and less than 26% of alarms were responded to in less than 5 minutes.
Protecting patients and staff while mitigating workplace violence and
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Scribematic Launches Matic Inside, an Embedded AI Scribe Solution for EHR Vendors
What You Should Know:
- The team behind Scribematic has launched Matic Inside, a fully embedded AI clinical documentation solution specifically built for EHR vendors.
- The launch comes at a time of a significant shift in the market, as the largest EHR vendor has announced it will implement its own embedded AI scribe across nearly half of the U.S. hospital market in 2026.
EHRs Face a "Right Now Crisis"
This move is creating a "right now crisis" for other EHR companies.
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The Real Healthcare Emergency: Why Interoperability is the Unsolved Foundation of Digital Health
Clinical information isn’t moving where it needs to go.
Despite decades of investment in health IT, the industry is still grappling with basic data exchange. As recently as 2023, 47.4% of small hospitals and 42.8% of rural hospitals still relied on mail or fax as their primary method of exchanging patient information. Even among medium and large hospitals, nearly one third still rely on these methods.
These manual processes take more time, introduce more risk, and delay care—yet they
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Artisight Launches AI Platform to Autonomously Document Operating Room Activity into EHRs
What You Should Know:
- Artisight, a Smart Hospital platform, has announced a new capability that autonomously documents operating room (OR) activity into a patient's electronic health record (EHR) using advanced AI and computer vision.
- This eliminates the need for clinicians and other healthcare staff to manually document key milestones in a procedure. This technology not only provides real-time updates that boost patient satisfaction but also makes a more productive use of high-demand
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Beyond the Algorithm: Why Data Infrastructure is the Key to Successful AI in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to hold the spotlight in healthcare transformation, promising everything from predictive care to streamlined administrative processes. Visionary use cases include anticipating patient deterioration, optimizing care coordination, accelerating prior authorizations, and unlocking insights from clinical notes that would otherwise remain buried.
But despite the promise, adoption remains uneven. Many organizations have piloted AI initiatives only to struggle
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MaineHealth Deploys First AI Nursing Agent for Behavioral Health
What You Should Know:
- MaineHealth Behavioral Health at Spring Harbor (MHBHSH) has licensed Acuity Behavioral Health’s Behavioral Health Operations Intelligence (BHOI) platform and BHAI software for its inpatient psychiatric units.
- The goal is to eventually implement the platform across the entire MaineHealth system. As a national leader in the innovation of care for mental illness, MHBHSH will use the BHOI platform to improve the care and safety of patients and nursing
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Sage Growth Partners Report: Healthcare C-Suite Acknowledges AI Potential but Lacks Trust
What You Should Know:
- A new report from healthcare consultancy Sage Growth Partners has revealed a growing disconnect between the potential of AI in healthcare and the preparedness of hospital and health system leaders to implement it.
- The report, The Healthcare C-Suite's Take on AI, is the first in a three-part series based on an annual survey of 101 C-suite leaders from various integrated delivery networks, academic medical centers, and independent hospitals.
Healthcare
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How Healthcare CIOs Can Solve the Unstructured Data Crisis and Reduce Storage Costs
Healthcare organizations are experiencing a seismic shift in how they handle unstructured data. From digital pathology to high-resolution imaging, genomic sequencing, and machine-generated sensor data, the volume of data that doesn’t fit neatly into rows and columns of a database has exploded across hospitals, research labs, and academic institutions.
While this unstructured data is intrinsic to patient care and scientific discovery, it’s also creating a mounting crisis for
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Barti Software Secures $12M Series A to Expand AI-Powered EHR for Eye Care
What You Should Know:
- Barti Software, a AI-powered company that provides innovative electronic health records (EHR) and practice management software built for eye care practices, announced a $12 million Series A investment led by Five Elms Capital.
- This partnership will enable Barti to scale its go-to-market efforts, grow its team across key functions, and accelerate development of new AI capabilities and workflow automation as Barti expands into ophthalmology. The company will
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