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Inventory carrying costs alone have been reduced by more than $10 million, says a pharmacy IT exec, who touts the ROI of combined analytics technologies.

These virtual care providers can support hospitals through patient volume spikes and provide more flexibility for clinicians. One even supported a complex resuscitation in real time. A Missouri hospitalist lays out some of the many benefits.

Members of Congress from affected states are hoping to repeal the AI-focused Medicare prior auth model, claiming it privatizes care delivery and harms patients.

What's more, staff used the analytics to slash inpatient length of stay from 5.99 days to 5.29 – a result "not driven by a single initiative, but by the cumulative effect of real-time visibility and coordinated action," says a performance improvement director.

"Health systems are investing greatly in innovative digital and AI technologies, but the gap between what technology can do and what clinicians actually use is where value is won or lost," says Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Jeremy Meller.

Also, AIIMS Delhi has unveiled a new virtual reality training centre.

The new federal electronic health records system went live at facilities in Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Detroit and Saginaw. The Department of Veterans Affairs also says it is staffing up to support implementations of the long-beleaguered Oracle Health EHR.

But many hospitals and health systems desperate to scale artificial intelligence are trapped by a dependency on EHR vendor roadmaps, a new survey shows, with 45% of respondents struggling to move beyond pilot phases.

Archbold Medical Center has also achieved a reduction in restocking resources: After making changes informed by drug velocity and cost data, there was a 20% drop in technician labor associated with moving inventory to the cabinet.

Data became six times more accurate than with manual EHR entry, an operations director says. And event updates were delivered in less than a minute compared to previous delays of up to 45 minutes.