What You Should Know:
- Quest Diagnostics, a provider of diagnostic information services announced a strategic collaboration with Google Cloud to enhance its data management, improve data analytics, and personalize customer experiences.
- The partnership will leverage Google Cloud's advanced data analytics and generative AI (gen AI) technologies to transform various aspects of Quest's operations.
Google Agentspace Integration
A key component of this collaboration is the
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Fort Health Partners to Train Therapists with AI Patient Avatars
What You Should Know:
- The high stakes nature of youth mental health therapy requires thorough preparation and applied evidence-based skills.
- Today, Fort Health, a specialty outpatient pediatric mental health provider, announced that it has partnered with Collevato train its therapists with AI avatar-led, face-to-face simulations. By providing highly relevant and engaging customized scenarios, Fort Health is able to rapidly upskill its therapists using evidence-based therapeutic
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Artisight, NVIDIA, and KARL STORZ Transform “Smart ORs” with AI-driven Automation
What You Should Know:
- Artisight, Inc., a pioneer in AI-powered Smart Hospital Platforms, is expanding its collaborative efforts with KARL STORZ, a global leader in Operating Room (OR) integration, and NVIDIA to usher in the next generation of AI-driven solutions for smart operating rooms.
- The partnership aims to enhance surgical insights, automate processes, and boost perioperative efficiency.
Revolutionize Smart Operating Rooms with AI
Building upon their existing
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Using AI to Drive Strategic Surgical Growth in Hospital Operations
Perioperative services at better-performing hospitals can contribute up to 68% of a hospital’s revenue, and up to 60% of a hospital’s operating margin. So, it’s not surprising that health system executives are laser-focused on increasing efficiency and utilization.
However, in the pursuit of higher profit margins, many executives are committing a fatal flaw that actually limits their opportunity to foster sustainable, significant expansion: pinning their growth goals on a hope strategy,
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Salt AI Partners with Ellison Medical Institute to Advance AI in Cancer Research
What You Should Know:
- Salt AI, a company founded by the high-performance computing (HPC) team behind MySpace, is making significant strides in AI-driven drug discovery through its research partnership with the Ellison Medical Institute, led by cancer researcher Dr. David Agus.
- The partnership signifies Salt AI's formal entry into the life sciences sector and has already yielded notable advancements. Key among these is the ability to run AlphaFold2, a foundation model
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Executive Insights: 4 Key Takeaways from HIMSS and ViVE 2025
The health tech industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation as AI-powered automation shifts from a futuristic vision to an immediate necessity. After attending HIMSS 2025 and ViVE 2025, two of the industry’s most important gatherings, and having the opportunity to meet with dozens of friends and colleagues across the industry, I think a clear picture is emerging. Something stood out at this year’s events — I’ll call it a vibe shift.
A year ago, every panel, booth conversation, and
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5 Years After The Chaos of COVID-19 Comes A New Era of AI Innovation
Five years ago this week, the COVID-19 pandemic threw our world into chaos. But that chaos also sparked an opportunity and a drive to accelerate innovation, through leveraging artificial intelligence with clinical knowledge in unprecedented ways. The results of these Covid-driven efforts have led to a fuller understanding of our community’s health, enabling the initiation of care further upstream and enhancing management of resources and costs in ways benefiting both patients and providers.
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Why Data Governance Is the #1 Non-Negotiable for Healthcare AI
Smoother clinical workflows. Powerful decision support. Faster R&D. AI holds lots of promise for healthcare orgs – and the last few years have seen a surge of investment as leaders race to train and implement new models.
But healthcare AI initiatives are only as good as the data they're built on. Put differently, they rely on good data governance.
Here are two of the biggest barriers to effective governance – and how healthcare orgs can overcome them to achieve their AI
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Xerox + Connecticut Children’s Introduce AI to Pediatric Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Connecticut Children’s and Xerox are collaborating to reimagine pediatric healthcare through the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
- The expanded partnership will see the introduction of AI-powered solutions to streamline care delivery and improve patient outcomes.
Xerox AI Improves Census Forecasting at Connecticut Children's Hospital
AI is already transforming how Connecticut Children’s delivers care, from helping emergency department
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Eir Partners Invests in Porter: Expanding AI-Driven Care Coordination
What You Should Know:
- Eir Partners (“Eir”), a middle market private equity firm focused on healthcare technology and tech-enabled services, today announced a growth investment in Porter, the only platform dedicated to connecting plan members with the resources, services, products, and education they need to live their best lives at home.
- Porter is led by John Criswell, an experienced healthcare technology founder, who witnessed firsthand how healthcare system complexity negatively
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