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Healthcare leaders are increasingly relying on seamless data exchange between health plans and providers to advance care and operational efficiency.

Interoperability is improving, but artificial intelligence is exposing the difference between merely exchanging data and actually making data usable, one consultant said.

"It's coming at them at a very fast pace," says Broward Health CIO Steven Travers, who advises healthcare organizations to ensure new tools fit both what an organization is trying to accomplish and the existing processes of frontline staff.

For the Midwestern health system, the coding process change has gone beyond improving accuracy – it has strengthened how staff operate across the entire revenue cycle, from documentation through denial management.

Also, Justice Health NSW has made the first go-live of the NSW SDPR.

Thirteen hospitals and 374 clinics are now exchanging patient medical records directly with the Social Security Administration through the nationwide interoperability network.

Newly announced artificial intelligence applications highlight the shift toward domain-specific automation, where reasoning and native integration aim to improve efficacy and safety.

By embedding OpenEvidence directly into its Epic electronic health records, the New York health system aims to change how its clinicians access health data at the point of care to improve patient outcomes.

Rumored for weeks, a reduction in force across Oracle business units, including Oracle Health and AI employees, appears to be hitting health IT developers in Kansas City and others worldwide.

And that's just with some medications. "When you can see exactly what you have and where it is, you stop purchasing just in case and you start using existing stock more effectively," explains the health system's VP of pharmacy ops.