How Healthcare Organizations Can Benefit From an Agentic Artificial Intelligence Workshop
At HIMSS 2026, healthcare IT leaders highlighted agentic artificial intelligence as a top priority, citing NVIDIA’s State of AI report that shows 70% of organizations now use AI and 47% are evaluating agentic AI. Providers face workflow integration hurdles and staff shortages, prompting interest in AI agents for back‑office and patient‑facing tasks. CDW promotes a structured workshop to help hospitals translate AI ideas into vetted, ROI‑driven roadmaps, addressing governance, compliance, and limited internal expertise. The initiative aims to accelerate adoption while mitigating the common “wait‑and‑see” approach.
Behind the Scenes of Houston Methodist’s Smart Hospital Campus
Houston Methodist’s Cypress Hospital, slated to open in 2025, is a purpose‑built smart campus that embeds flexible infrastructure, Alexa‑controlled rooms, and digital signage integrated with Epic. The design includes modular walls and a segmented Cisco network that can accommodate emerging...
Technology Needs Meet Enterprise Goals to Support a Care Continuum
Apple’s VP of health and fitness, Sumbul Ahmad Desai, emphasized at the 2026 HIMSS conference that technology must address real clinical problems, not exist for its own sake. She highlighted Apple’s evolution of wearables toward clinically validated data that supports...
Targeting Trust: Lessons From the Stryker Cyberattack for Healthcare
The March cyberattack on medical‑technology company Stryker exposed a new attack vector: the compromise of identity‑management and certificate‑issuance systems that establish digital trust. By infiltrating these trust layers, attackers could potentially weaponize entire fleets of connected medical devices rather than...
Q&A: Advocate Health CNIO on AI Implementation Best Practices for Nursing
Advocate Health’s chief nursing informatics officer outlines how ambient AI documentation is being rolled out to cut nursing clicks and reduce documentation fatigue. A pilot showed 65% of caregivers used the tool six or more times per shift, with more...
Time for ‘Novel Ideals’: Rural Health Leaders Share Strategies Amid Budget Constraints
Sanford Health, the nation’s largest rural health system, is leveraging a $350 million virtual‑care initiative and a 60,000‑sq‑ft Virtual Care Center to sustain profitability while serving over 2 million patients across 300,000 square miles. The system’s hybrid model, which routes two‑thirds of virtual...
How Senior Living Communities Use Data to Improve Care and Operations
Senior‑living operator Frasier in Boulder, Colorado, deployed Microsoft Power BI dashboards built on an Azure data lake in October 2025, giving leaders instant visibility into resident census, finances, IT tickets and more. The analytics platform prompted a 150% surge in help‑desk ticket...
How to Manage a Virtualization Migration in Healthcare
Healthcare providers are accelerating migrations to new virtualization platforms as rising license fees and bundled pricing strain budgets. Executives like Nutanix’s Scott Ragsdale warn that a migration touches a decade of operational procedures, technical debt, and clinical workloads. Successful moves...
Docusign Intelligent Agreement Management Brings Clarity to Workflows
DocuSign introduced Intelligent Agreement Management, a SaaS platform that extends its e‑signature core with identity verification, centralized workspaces, multichannel delivery and AI‑driven analytics for healthcare providers. The solution consolidates patient intake forms, consent documents and vendor contracts into a single,...
DT Research DT514LA Offers Trusted Bedside Support
DT Research introduced the DT514LA, a 23.8‑inch all‑in‑one medical computer designed for bedside use. Powered by an Intel Core Ultra 5 processor and featuring a fanless, antimicrobial chassis, the device delivers desktop‑level performance in a compact, portable form factor. It supports...
AI-Powered Healthcare Wearables: The Next Generation of Remote Patient Monitoring
Advances in artificial intelligence and edge computing are turning health wearables into real‑time diagnostic tools. Researchers at Harvard, the University of Arizona and the University of Stirling show that AI can filter raw sensor data, generate actionable insights, and push...
Federated Machine Learning Gives Healthcare Organizations a Competitive AI Advantage
Federated machine learning lets health systems train AI models on‑site, sending only model updates to a central server. This decentralized approach preserves patient privacy while aggregating insights from multiple hospitals, such as Mayo Clinic and Vanderbilt University, using NVIDIA‑powered platforms....
Health Systems Can Get Started With Microsoft Dragon Copilot Today to Improve Clinical Workflows
Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot, an AI‑driven clinical assistant, is now generally available for health systems. The platform automates documentation, pulls data from electronic health records, and offers role‑specific workflows for physicians, nurses and radiologists. More than 100,000 clinicians have adopted the...
5 Questions About Private 5G for Healthcare Organizations
Private 5G is emerging as a viable alternative to campus Wi‑Fi for hospitals, offering higher device density, lower latency, and deterministic performance. The technology leverages dedicated spectrum, either purchased, leased, or accessed via the FCC’s free General Authorized Access band,...
IHS Leaders Tie Cybersecurity Directly to Patient Care
At the 2026 Splunk GovSummit, Indian Health Service leaders declared cybersecurity a core component of patient care. Serving 2.7 million patients across 37 states, IHS ties security to clinical continuity, emphasizing real‑time monitoring and resilience in remote and urban facilities. The...