How the HIMSS AMAM Model Helps Benchmark Data Maturity
The HIMSS Analytics Maturity Assessment Model (AMAM) was validated at Seoul National University’s Bundang Hospital, giving leaders a clear benchmark of their data maturity. The assessment highlighted gaps in data governance, integration, and analytics infrastructure, shaping a roadmap for AI and analytics deployment. By quantifying readiness, the hospital can prioritize high‑impact use cases such as radiology and oncology. The model places Bundang Hospital in the top 15% of global peers, accelerating its digital transformation timeline.
AI's Promise Meets the Pediatric Frontline
Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) has begun deploying agentic and generative AI tools to streamline chart reviews, reducing tasks that once took an hour to mere minutes. The technology integrates structured and unstructured patient data, delivering annotated insights directly...
Healthcare Is Drowning in Data, but AI Offers a Lifeline
Healthcare organizations are producing unprecedented volumes of unstructured data, from clinical notes to imaging metadata, creating bottlenecks that hinder patient care and operational efficiency. Shawn Freligh, General Manager at Upland Software, argues that artificial intelligence can ingest, categorize, and route...
Outdated Technology Comes with a Human Cost
Outdated health‑IT systems are generating a growing technical debt that clogs clinician workflows and forces patients to repeat their medical histories. Joel Bond of Bond Consulting highlighted the issue at HIMSS26, noting that fragmented electronic health records and legacy network...
From AI Ambition to Health System Execution: Closing the Gap Between Promise and Practice
Health systems are pouring capital into artificial intelligence, yet up to 80% of pilots never leave the testing phase and roughly 95% fail to generate a return on investment. To address this gap, the Digital Medicine Society and Qualified Health...
Inside the 'Glass Box': Why One Physician Thinks AI in Medicine Must Show Its Work
Dr. Niki Panich, chief medical officer of Penguin AI and practicing family physician, is championing “glass box traceability” – AI tools that expose the reasoning behind clinical recommendations. She argues that physicians must see at a glance the data, weights,...
How Ochsner Turned Telemedicine Into a Hospital Lifeline
Ochsner Health launched its first telemedicine program in 1998 and expanded into tele‑stroke in 2009, laying a 25‑year foundation for virtual care. The system later unified disparate pilots into a centralized, standardized virtual‑care operating model that pairs virtual clinicians with...
Address Clinical and IT Needs First to Help Ensure Ambient AI Success
Wendy Charles of the University of Denver and Renee Pratt of the University of North Georgia warn that while ambient AI can dramatically speed clinical documentation, it also raises accuracy and integration challenges. They argue that success hinges on addressing...
Why AI’s Healthcare Promise Is Stalling
Healthcare providers are amassing massive data streams, yet many struggle to turn that information into actionable insights. Health Catalyst’s Chief Product Officer Robbie Hughes argues that the AI promise stalls because organizations focus on new models instead of solid data...
In the Near Future, AI-Enabled Care May Be Expected by Patients
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a standard component of health care delivery, with patients increasingly expecting AI‑driven support in diagnosis and treatment. Matt Cybulsky, managing director at Catalant, warns that clinicians who fail to adopt AI tools may be viewed...
Changing Assault-Based STI Outcomes with Remote Care Delivery
RAINN’s Safe Access Program has partnered with Visby Medical to deliver at‑home STI testing and treatment in care‑desert regions across 17 states. Visby’s kits boast 98% accuracy and provide results in 30 minutes via a mobile app, then connect positive...
How One Rural Health System Is Designing Targeted AI Pilots to Ease Care Delivery Pressures
Berkshire Health Systems, a rural network of three hospitals and numerous outpatient sites in western Massachusetts, is tackling rising costs and staffing strains by launching targeted artificial intelligence pilots. CIO William Young emphasizes measurable outcomes, focusing on time savings, error...
TEFCA and CMS-Aligned Networks: Inflection Point for Digital Quality Measurement or Fragmentation Risk?
The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) is expanding nationwide data exchange while CMS‑aligned networks are piloting FHIR‑based interoperability in real‑world settings. Together they promise a scalable foundation for digital quality measurement, shifting reporting from retrospective to actionable insights....
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A new study links extreme temperature events to measurable spikes in healthcare utilization, showing that heatwaves and cold snaps drive higher emergency department visits and hospital admissions. Researchers from South Africa quantified the relationship, finding that each degree Celsius above...
Vendor Notebook: Health AI Bolstered by Collective Approaches to Quality
A coalition of health‑tech vendors is rolling out AI tools to close the technology gap in rural hospitals. Viz AI, partnered with the National Rural Health Association, will deploy AI that flags strokes and pulmonary embolisms and streamlines care coordination. InterSystems...
Sarasota Memorial IDs Lung Cancers Earlier with Analytics Platform
Sarasota Memorial Health Care System adopted the Eon analytics platform to scan radiology reports, surface incidental lung nodules, and manage patient follow‑up. The solution lifted real‑time alerts from 1‑2 per week to roughly 170, enabling a dedicated lung nodule clinic....
Urgent Care Clinics Boost Revenue and Throughput with AI Scribe
Experity Health’s AI Scribe, embedded in its urgent‑care EHR, automatically transcribes provider‑patient conversations into structured notes. Since its rollout in October 2025, more than 450 clinics have logged over 400,000 visits, cutting daily documentation time by roughly 40%. The efficiency...
Abridge Releases Ambient AI Tech for Nurses
Abridge announced that its ambient documentation AI is now available to nurses at every health‑system client nationwide. The technology automatically captures and records patient‑encounter notes, aiming to cut the administrative load that nurses traditionally shoulder. Early adopters include Mayo Clinic,...
What's the Playbook for Continuity and Compliance when IT Systems Are Down
Rebecca Romine of Polsinelli outlines a practical playbook for health‑care providers to preserve patient privacy when cyberattacks force a switch from electronic health records to paper‑based workflows. She stresses pre‑approved paper‑form templates, strict access controls, and real‑time documentation of manual...
IHH Healthcare Migrating Finance, HR Systems to the Cloud and More Briefs
Private healthcare giant IHH Healthcare announced it will migrate its legacy finance, human resources and supply chain applications to Oracle Fusion Cloud, creating a unified, cloud‑based platform. The move follows earlier cloud migrations of on‑premise databases in its Singapore and...
To Effectively Adopt AI, a Strong Analytics Backbone Is Needed
HIMSS introduced its Analytics Maturity Assessment Model to steer health systems away from rushing AI tool deployments and toward strengthening the underlying data infrastructure. Andrew Pearce, HIMSS VP of analytics, emphasizes that a robust analytics backbone—encompassing data warehousing, governance, and...
First Rehabilitation Boosts Revenue 37% with Outpatient Platform
First Rehabilitation, a three‑location outpatient physical therapy provider in Palm Beach County, replaced its fragmented, paper‑heavy operations with Spry's integrated platform. The new system combined scheduling, documentation, billing, eligibility checks and reporting, and introduced an AI‑driven Scribe for real‑time note...
Pursuing Tech-Enabled Preventive Healthcare for Lower-Income Families
National University Hospital’s HEADS‑UPP programme in Singapore is using tele‑dentistry to deliver preventive dental care to low‑income preschoolers. Nurses capture intra‑oral images at preschools, which paediatric dentists review remotely to produce personalized risk reports. Early data show follow‑up specialist care...
Medicaid Eligibility Decisions Made Faster with Smoother Data Exchange
Contexture, a health information exchange, is now sharing clinical data directly with Arizona and Colorado Medicaid agencies to determine whether work‑requirement rules apply to beneficiaries. The real‑time exchange streamlines eligibility verification, cutting the time needed for manual record checks. By...
How One Practice Combines In-Clinic, Telehealth and In-Home Care
Dr. Payam Zamani’s My Dr Now has built a hybrid primary‑care network that blends in‑clinic, telehealth and in‑home visits into a single, patient‑centric platform. The model operates 75 retail‑style clinics across Arizona and Texas, stays open 7 days a week...
DiMe and CARIN Alliance Helping Apps Get Into the Medicare App Library
DiMe (Digital Medicine Society) and the CARIN Alliance are collaborating with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to define security and trust standards for apps seeking inclusion in the Medicare app library. The partnership aims to create a...
Maine Health System Lays Off 38 IT Staff After EHR Upgrades
Central Maine Healthcare in Lewiston is cutting 38 IT positions as it retires legacy systems and rolls out a new Epic MyChart portal for patient scheduling. The layoffs follow Prime Healthcare Foundation’s February acquisition, which has already begun modernizing the...
One Mississippi Health System's Journey to a System-Wide Epic EHR
South Central Regional Medical Center launched a system‑wide Epic electronic health record across five sites, tackling fragmented legacy systems and data silos. The "Race to Epic" framework aligned clinicians, administrators, and IT staff around clear milestones, shared accountability, and intensive...
Rural Hospitals Are in a Precarious Position, New Research Shows
New research by NHIT INSPIRED reveals that 700 of the 1,800 rural hospitals in the United States are financially at risk, and 300 of them could close within the next three years. The study highlights mounting pressures from low reimbursement...
States Modernize PA Practice Laws to Expand Healthcare Workforces
A wave of state legislation is expanding physician assistant (PA) autonomy as part of the federal Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP). Seven states, including Iowa and Kentucky, have removed mandatory supervisory agreements, allowing PAs to practice independently and, in Kentucky,...
At UToledo Health, Ambient AI Decreases Open Charts, Improves Documentation
UToledo Health piloted Nabla’s ambient AI documentation tool with 40 providers across multiple specialties. Over an eight‑week period the system captured real‑time clinical conversations, generating structured notes that were integrated into Epic, resulting in more than 3,000 documented encounters. The...
AI Falls Short on Differential Diagnosis, Despite High Accuracy Rates
A JAMA Network Open study from Mass General Brigham evaluated 21 large language models on structured patient scenarios. The models achieved over 90 % accuracy in identifying the final diagnosis when given complete clinical information, but they struggled to generate appropriate...
Prior Auth Challenges Mount as Demand Proliferates
Prior authorization (PA) requests are surging, with industry data showing a 22% year‑over‑year increase in volume across U.S. health systems. Clinicians, like Shields Health Solutions’ chief pharmacy officer Brian Smith, acknowledge growing frustration as each PA adds an average 15‑minute...
Advancing Healthcare Innovation with the Mayo Clinic–ASU Health Care Accelerator and Industry
The Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University have launched the Mayo Clinic–ASU Health Care Accelerator, a program that moves early‑stage healthcare technologies toward clinical adoption. Intel’s General Manager Alex Flores discussed the accelerator on HIMSSCast, highlighting how sustained industry engagement,...
HIMSS26 Changemaker Advocates for Health IT Causes
At HIMSS26, federal lobbyist Brett Meeks of Jeffrey J. Kimbell & Associates highlighted his daily mission to advance health‑IT interoperability and data privacy. Speaking as a Changemaker, Meeks emphasized the urgency of unified data standards as AI becomes embedded in...
In the Age of AI, Interoperability Becomes Core Operating Infrastructure
Healthcare interoperability has advanced markedly, with API‑based patient access now mainstream and TEFCA evolving into a live exchange framework. Yet true plug‑and‑play remains elusive as hospitals wrestle with proprietary interfaces, manual workarounds, and fragmented workflow integration. Standards such as FHIR...
From Patchwork to Platform: How Blue Cross Blue Shield Meets the Modernization Challenge
Blue Cross Blue Shield plans are confronting legacy technology debt and fragmented data silos, prompting a shift toward modular, cloud‑ready architectures. A HIMSS session outlined practical strategies—multicloud adoption, data unification, and robust governance—to boost agility and member experience. Speakers from...
A New Interoperability Strategy in the Age of Analytics and AI
A HIMSS webinar revealed that 86% of healthcare leaders view interoperability without data preparation as offering limited value for AI and analytics. The discussion urges providers to move beyond simple connectivity and embed data readiness into their interoperability strategies. InterSystems...
InterSystems Automates Bi-Directional Data Exchange Between Epic Payer Platform and Health Plan Workflows
InterSystems announced its Payer Connector, a bidirectional integration hub that links Epic Payer Platform with health‑plan IT systems. The solution transforms and routes data securely, reducing the need for point‑to‑point interfaces and speeding up deployment. It is now available through the Epic...
How One HIMSS Member's Policy Work Is Shaped by Experience
Gayle Harrell, a Florida state senator and 2026 HIMSS Changemaker, used her experience running a medical practice to shape health‑IT legislation. Her frontline insight led to new Florida bills that update HITECH compliance and mandate electronic prescribing. The policies aim...
AI May Be Approaching a New Phase in Healthcare, on Two Fronts
Physicians are adopting Anthropic's agentic AI tool Claude Code to build custom clinical applications, signaling a shift toward doctor‑led software development within health systems. The latest frontier model, Claude Mythos, can identify code vulnerabilities, prompting security leaders to warn of...
Reimagining the Smart Hospital, Cleveland Clinic Style
Cleveland Clinic’s chief information officer, Sarah Hatchett, says a truly smart hospital hinges on orchestrating a seamless, longitudinal patient journey rather than simply installing the latest devices. At HIMSS26, the health system showcased how AI‑driven analytics pull in pre‑admission data...
Full Coverage: HIMSS26 European Health Conference & Exhibition
At HIMSS26, European health leaders emphasized that validation—not ambition—is the primary driver of digital health investment, as recent NHS maturity assessments demonstrate. Emerging clinical informatics roles such as CNIOs and digital midwives are bridging technology and bedside care, while Italy’s...
Phoenix Children's Boosts Post-Cardiac Arrest Health with Dashboard
Phoenix Children’s Hospital built a real‑time clinical dashboard that flags pediatric patients admitted after cardiac arrest and tracks six evidence‑based care priorities. Each morning the system emails a concise alert showing temperature, blood pressure, EEG, ECHO and other metrics, allowing...
Pharmacy System Saves Texas Children's Hospital $14M, and That's Just for Starters
Texas Children’s Hospital replaced its manual pharmacy inventory process with an RFID‑enabled Tecsys point‑of‑use platform, focusing on high‑cost medications. Partnering with Zebra Technologies, the hospital equipped refrigerators and cabinets with RFID tags and handheld scanners, delivering real‑time visibility of stock,...
Tele-Hospitalists Can Help with More Challenges than Most Realize
Tele‑hospitalists are emerging as a critical extension of inpatient teams during surges, staffing gaps, and after‑hours periods. By evaluating ED patients, placing admission orders, and managing cross‑cover duties, they shorten boarding times and free bedside clinicians to focus on the...
Keep Operations Running During EHR Downtime
Healthcare providers now treat electronic health record (EHR) downtime as a recurring operational reality rather than a rare glitch. As core clinical and administrative workflows migrate to digital platforms, manual fallback procedures no longer sustain the speed or accuracy required....
The Administrative Burden Playbook for Clinical and Operational Leaders
The webinar hosted by Yan D‑Beaurivage, Vice President of Product, Market and Growth Strategy at Petal, presents a frontline‑informed playbook for cutting administrative burden in hospitals. It emphasizes pinpointing high‑friction workflows, deploying automation that supports clinical judgment, and moving quickly...
Students Get Lots of Networking Opportunities at HIMSS
At the HIMSS26 conference, undergraduates and graduate students interested in healthcare IT were reminded of the networking advantages of joining local HIMSS chapters. Joseph Brown, chair for allied health and HIM at Davenport University, highlighted that chapter membership opens doors...
UMC El Paso Cuts ED Boarding by Half with Dashboards
University Medical Center of El Paso deployed real‑time TeleTracking dashboards to overhaul patient‑flow management. By embedding daily discharge and length‑of‑stay metrics into leadership and frontline workflows, the hospital shifted from retrospective reporting to proactive decision‑making. The initiative drove inpatient length...