What You Should Know:
- University Hospitals (UH) has launched its Connected Care Team initiative at UH Lake West, making it one of the first hospitals in the U.S. to implement a whole-hospital virtual nursing program.
- The initiative uses Vitalchat’s AI-driven audio and video platform to extend the reach of nurses through secure, high-definition communication. This expansion follows a successful initial phase that demonstrated significant benefits for patients, caregivers,
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Joint Commission and CHAI Release First-Ever Guidance for Responsible AI in Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- The Joint Commission and the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) have released the first installment of their collaborative work: Guidance on Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare.
- The guidance is designed to serve as a framework for U.S. health systems to safely and effectively implement artificial intelligence (AI) at scale. It is the first of several milestones to come from the strategic partnership, which was launched in June 2025.
Accessible,
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Virtual Clinical Trials: Mayo Clinic’s AI-Powered Solution to Accelerate Heart Failure Drug Discovery
What You Should Know:
- Heart failure is a critical health issue affecting millions of Americans, and despite decades of research, effective treatment options remain limited. Traditional drug development is a slow, costly, and high-risk process.
- Researchers at Mayo Clinic are pioneering a new approach using artificial intelligence (AI) and "virtual clinical trials" to accelerate the discovery of new therapies, particularly by repurposing existing drugs.
An Urgent Need for
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71% of Hospitals Now Use Predictive AI, But a Digital Divide Remains
What You Should Know:
- A recent data brief from the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the ASTP/ONC examines the trends in predictive AI adoption, evaluation, and governance using data from 2023 and 2024. The findings highlight both the widespread adoption of this technology and the persistent challenges in its equitable implementation.
- The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has seen significant growth over the past decade, with predictive AI becoming a key
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The Future of Healthcare Is in Your Pocket: How AI and Smartphones Are Transforming Patient Care
The U.S. healthcare system is in crisis. Financial instability is straining hospitals, frontline staff are stretched beyond capacity, and patients continue to encounter disjointed care and unequal access. Decades of focusing on reactive treatment over prevention have left us ill-equipped to manage chronic conditions, rising costs, and growing health disparities.
Despite widespread consensus about the importance of population health management and value-based care, the current approach
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Zoom Unveils AI Companion 3.0 and Agentic AI Innovations
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- Zoom Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZM) announced the release of AI Companion 3.0 at Zoomtopia 2025, its annual flagship conference.
- This latest evolution introduces advanced agentic AI across Zoom Workplace and Business Services, transforming everyday interactions into actionable outcomes and reinforcing Zoom’s position as an AI-first collaboration platform.
Zoom Launches AI Companion 3.0 at Zoomtopia 2025, Bringing Agentic AI Across Its Ecosystem
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Alita Launches AI Agent to Automate Post-Acute Care Workflows
What You Should Know:
- Alita, a new AI agent purpose-built for post-acute care, has officially launched to help providers turn more conversations into care outcomes automatically, 24/7.
- The AI-powered agent brings empathetic automation to intake, hiring, and admissions workflows. It is designed to handle 90% of the busy work in client and resident intake and caregiver candidate screening, freeing up staff to focus on people, not paperwork.
A Broken System and the Cost
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Commure to Embed Ambient AI into MEDITECH Expanse Now Mobile EHR
What You Should Know:
- Commure, a healthcare technology company, has announced the direct embedding of its Ambient technology within MEDITECH Expanse Now, the physician's mobile application in the MEDITECH Expanse EHR platform.
- The collaboration empowers healthcare organizations using Expanse Now to streamline clinical documentation and reduce administrative burdens, which allows clinicians to focus more fully on patient care within their familiar mobile workflows. This
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Why AI Isn’t Curing Disease, Yet: Crossing Pharma’s Valley of Death with Physical Intelligence
We were told AI would cure disease in years. That’s a fallacy.
Today, over 90% of clinical drug candidates still fail. It costs more than $2 billion and over a decade to bring a single drug to market. And now the industry faces a brutal paradox, which is the promise of exponential progress stuck inside a system governed by diminishing returns.
This is pharma’s version of Eroom’s Law, i.e. the inverse of Moore’s Law, where the return on drug development declines as science
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Causaly Introduces First Agentic AI Platform Built for Life Sciences Research and Development
What You Should Know:
- Causaly today announced Causaly Agentic Research, an agentic AI platform designed specifically for life sciences research and development.
- Built to deliver transparency and scientific rigor, the platform’s specialized AI agents access, analyze, and synthesize internal and external biomedical knowledge and competitive intelligence—so teams can automate complex workflows, uncover novel insights, and move from hypothesis to decision faster and with greater
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