Artificial Intelligence
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.
A busy and productive week in Las Vegas has demonstrated how health systems are "focusing on practical implementation," with "governance and trust finally being treated as design requirements" for successful artificial intelligence deployments.
Leigh Burchell, VP for policy and public affairs at Altera Digital Health and a HIMSS26 Policy Influencer Changemaker, says giving patients visibility into procedure costs can reduce surprise billing and drive prices down through competition.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' latest revision and reshuffling of healthcare and technology function also moves some key C-suite technology leaders to the Office of the Chief Information Officer.
The Korean hospital has been revalidated at Stage 7 of the HIMSS INFRAM.
Sustaining Rural Health
The state's Rural Health Transformation Program initiative seeks to balance federal funding changes with telehealth, artificial intelligence and workforce initiatives.
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.
AI & ML Intelligence
The health system has a three-pronged strategy: leveraging pre-built tools, maximizing robotic process automation for efficiency and deploying LLMs to provide human-level reasoning across its operations.
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The Korean hospital is the first in Asia-Pacific to be validated for the modernised AMAM.
