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- 041TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
New HSCC guide addresses cybersecurity risks specific to healthcare AI
The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council has released new guidance on cybersecurity risks specific to healthcare AI systems. The guide addresses governance and security considerations as providers increasingly deploy AI across clinical and operational workflows, going beyond existing regulatory requirements to help organizations establish effective AI cybersecurity practices.
- 042TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Epic integrates firearm injury risk screening tool from Northwell Health
Epic Systems has integrated a firearm injury risk screening tool developed by Northwell Health into its EHR platform. The tool enables clinicians to identify patients at elevated risk during clinical encounters. The integration expands access to the screening capability across Epic's user base of healthcare systems and providers.
- 043TechnologySource · Mobi Health News
SNUH, Harvard unveil world's first virtual hospital for validating medical AI
Seoul National University Hospital and Harvard Medical School have developed a virtual hospital framework for validating large language model-based medical AI. The Clinical Environment Simulator uses two synchronized core engines to dynamically evaluate medical AI systems, offering a standardized platform for testing AI-driven diagnostic and clinical decision-support tools before real-world deployment.
- 044TechnologySource · Mobi Health News
Epic integrates firearm injury risk screening tool from Northwell Health
Epic Systems has integrated a firearm injury risk screening tool developed by Northwell Health into its EHR platform. The tool, created through NIH-funded research, enables healthcare providers to screen patients for firearm injury risk and systematically collect data on firearm-injured patients within Epic workflows.
- 045TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Budget 2026: New Zealand funds digital health upgrades, cybersec
New Zealand's 2026 budget allocates NZ$450 million ($270 million) for digital health infrastructure and cybersecurity across the public health system. Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand will receive NZ$153.6 million ($91.7 million) to expand 24/7 cybersecurity monitoring and response capabilities, strengthen specialist expertise, and deploy critical security upgrades across primary care and hospital networks.
- 046TechnologySource · Medical Device Network
When SSRIs fail: the neuromodulation pathway
Device-based neuromodulation therapies are emerging as an alternative treatment pathway for patients with depression who do not respond adequately to SSRIs. The article examines how neuromodulation devices can address treatment-resistant depression, positioning them as a viable clinical option for this patient population.
- 047TechnologySource · MedCity News
The EHR Was Built to Store Data — It Wasn’t Built to Orchestrate Care
Digital health vendors are advancing beyond traditional EHR data storage by adding AI-powered orchestration layers to enable real-time care activation. The approach pairs EHR platforms with intelligent middleware designed to coordinate workflows and drive actionable clinical decisions.
- 048TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Ultrasound analytics take digital transformation a step forward
Healthcare systems are adopting ultrasound analytics platforms to gain operational visibility into fleet utilization and workflow efficiency. These digital tools provide performance metrics across ultrasound departments at scale, supporting hospital digital transformation initiatives by helping optimize resource allocation and clinical scheduling.
- 049TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Australia pursues digitisation of child health records
Australia will launch development of a National Digital Child Health Record in July, integrating with My Health Record and the 1800MEDICARE app to provide families, carers, and care providers a consolidated view of pediatric health and development data across the care continuum.
- 050TechnologySource · Mobi Health News
Can wearable data do more than track health? Singapore's Signsbeat is trying to find out
Signsbeat, a Singapore-based health tech startup, is developing a wearable-derived analytics platform that interprets physiological signals from wearables and continuous glucose monitors to provide actionable metabolic insights beyond passive health tracking. The company is testing whether correlating multiple data streams can explain the drivers behind vital-sign changes rather than simply reporting individual metrics.
- 051TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Wearables data pose a vulnerability that could undermine RPM programs
Remote patient monitoring programs using wearable devices face cybersecurity vulnerabilities that could compromise data integrity and program effectiveness, according to healthcare IT analysts. As RPM adoption grows across clinical settings, IT leaders must address encryption, authentication, and secure data transmission standards to protect patient information and maintain regulatory compliance.
- 052TechnologySource · Medical Device Network
AiM Medical to integrate robotic neurosurgery system with Siemens’ MRI systems
AiM Medical Robotics will develop an interface to integrate its robotic neurosurgery platform with Siemens Healthineers MRI systems. The partnership aims to enable real-time imaging guidance during neurosurgical procedures by connecting the two systems.
- 053TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
IHH Healthcare embeds AI into workflows as adoption scales across hospitals
IHH Healthcare, a major Asia-Pacific hospital operator, is embedding AI into clinical and operational workflows across its network. The deployment focuses on improving efficiency and reducing administrative burden, with growing interest in advanced clinical AI applications. The rollout reflects broader regional momentum among healthcare organisations to adopt AI for workflow optimisation.
- 054TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Singapore, Bhutan partner on rural chest X-ray AI
SingHealth (Singapore) and the Royal University of Bhutan's Gyalpozhing College of Information Technology have signed a two-year memorandum of understanding to develop an AI-assisted chest X-ray diagnostic model for rural hospitals. The collaboration aims to support lung-condition diagnosis in resource-limited settings.
- 055TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
AI's promise meets the pediatric frontline
Children's Hospital of Orange County is deploying AI tools to address clinician burden from electronic health record systems. Dr. Steven Martel leads efforts to use artificial intelligence to streamline workflows and reduce administrative overhead in pediatric care settings, representing a shift toward AI-enabled clinical software solutions.
- 056TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Hong Kong moves to mandate digital antimicrobial records
Hong Kong is implementing an electronic antimicrobial transaction record platform to support upcoming legislation requiring licensed pharmaceutical traders and pharmacies to digitally record antimicrobial prescriptions and dispensing. The initiative, confirmed by the Acting Secretary for Health, addresses regulatory compliance for tracking antimicrobial use across the healthcare supply chain.
- 057TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
InterSystems Automates Bi-Directional Data Exchange between Epic Payer Platform and Health Plan Workflows
InterSystems announced automation of bi-directional data exchange between Epic's payer platform and health plan workflows. The integration streamlines data flow between payer systems and Epic's platform, reducing manual data handling and improving interoperability between health plan operations and Epic infrastructure. The move addresses connectivity gaps in the payer-provider IT landscape.
- 058TechnologySource · Medical Device Network
Podcast: Flexible instruments for minimally invasive treatment – what OEMs need to know
Alleima Medical's Global Product Manager Tom Schmid discusses advances in flexible instruments for minimally invasive treatment in a podcast episode aimed at OEMs. The discussion covers material and design innovations relevant to manufacturers developing flexible surgical and diagnostic tools.
- 059TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Roundup: More identity verification tech for digital health exchanges
Technology vendors including Verato are releasing identity verification solutions designed to secure provider and patient access to digital health exchanges, improve interoperability, and reduce fraud. The tools address traditional challenges in identity matching across fragmented hospital and insurance databases.
- 060TechnologySource · MedCity News
The Future of Healthcare Screenings: The Power of Vocal Biomarkers
Vocal biomarker analysis enables multi-condition screening from a 40-second voice sample without laboratory visits or physical examination. The approach uses voice analysis software to detect disease signatures, offering a non-invasive, scalable alternative to traditional diagnostic methods. Applications span respiratory, neurological, and cardiovascular conditions.
- 061TechnologySource · MedCity News
ChatGPT Wants to Improve Your Health — ChatCPR Might Actually Save Your Life
Researchers at UC San Diego, Johns Hopkins, and UPMC developed ChatCPR, an AI-powered coaching tool that guides bystanders through cardiopulmonary resuscitation and outperformed human 911 dispatchers in preliminary testing. The team released the tool as open-source software, targeting deployment by emergency-response organizations and commercial partners seeking to improve real-time dispatch guidance.
- 062TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Virtual platform offers a valuable lifeline for rural primary care patients
A rural Indiana physician has developed a virtual care platform to address gaps in primary care access for patients in underserved areas. The platform enables remote consultations for acute conditions like urinary tract infections, reducing unnecessary emergency department visits and lowering patient costs. The initiative targets the persistent challenge of after-hours and weekend care availability in rural communities.
- 063TechnologySource · MedCity News
The Hidden Cost of Slow Cyber Remediation in Healthcare
Delayed remediation and slow patch application in healthcare organizations have become critical indicators of leadership priorities and operational risk. The article examines how latency in security fixes directly impacts organizational vulnerabilities and cost of incident response in medical settings.
- 064TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Changing assault-based STI outcomes with remote care delivery
Visby Medical has partnered with RAINN's Safe Access Program to deliver remote STI care for patients in underserved areas. The initiative enables patients with chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis to access medication without in-person appointments, addressing care gaps for sexual assault survivors who face access barriers or extended wait times.
- 065TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
How one rural health system is designing targeted AI pilots to ease care delivery pressures
Berkshire Health Systems, a rural Massachusetts health system operating three hospitals and multiple care sites, is designing targeted AI pilots to address operational pressures including rising costs and staffing strain. The CIO emphasizes that technology deployment must be outcome-focused rather than technology-driven.
- 066TechnologySource · MedCity News
Private Voice AI in Healthcare: How to Capture Critical Conversations Without Letting Patient Data Leave the Building
Healthcare organizations are deploying voice AI systems on their own infrastructure to capture and analyze clinical conversations while keeping patient data on-premises. The approach addresses privacy and security concerns by avoiding cloud-based processing, enabling teams to extract insights from voice records without transmitting sensitive information outside the organization.
- 067TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
NHG senior centres to deliver telehealth with 5G
NHG Health will deploy Singtel's 5G+ Priority SIM cards across 40 community health posts in senior centres across Central and North Singapore by end-2027 to support more reliable teleconsultations. The infrastructure upgrade aims to enhance telehealth connectivity for elderly residents and other community members, addressing reliability gaps in remote care delivery.
- 068TechnologySource · MedCity News
How Beth Israel Lahey Health Cut Fax Failures From 34% to 4% — and Saved $4 Million
Beth Israel Lahey Health reduced fax failure rates from 34% to 4% and saved $4 million by adopting Retarus' cloud-based fax platform during an Epic EHR consolidation. The modernization simplified referral and prescription processing while reducing manual administrative work across the health system.
- 069TechnologySource · Mobi Health News
Volatile digital health marketplace impacts interoperability adoption
Market volatility in digital health is affecting the pace and scope of interoperability adoption among healthcare vendors and providers. Economic uncertainty, funding challenges, and shifting vendor priorities are slowing standardization efforts and integration initiatives that enable data exchange across platforms and systems.
- 070TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Vendor Notebook: Health AI bolstered by collective approaches to quality
Viz AI and InterSystems partnered with the National Rural Health Association to advance rural care coordination through governance and workflow automation. Separately, Credo AI, Zyter|TruCare, and Infinitus Systems announced new tools to ensure quality, reliability, and output control for agentic AI systems. The moves reflect industry focus on assuring clinical safety and compliance as AI adoption in healthcare accelerates.
- 071TechnologySource · MedCity News
Building a Unified Identity Strategy so Interoperability for Value-Based Care Can Succeed
Verato is hosting a May 27 webinar on unified identity strategy for healthcare interoperability in value-based care settings. The session will cover patient and provider identity management across systems and how identity infrastructure supports accurate attribution and data exchange needed for VBC models.
- 072TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Urgent care clinics boost revenue and throughput with AI scribe
Urgent care clinics are adopting AI scribe technology to automate clinical documentation during patient visits. The shift addresses a long-standing workflow challenge where providers spent significant time typing and navigating EHR systems during consultations, reducing patient interaction time. AI scribes capture visit details automatically, allowing clinicians to focus on direct patient engagement while improving documentation accuracy and compliance.
- 073TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Abridge releases ambient AI tech for nurses
Abridge announced its ambient AI documentation platform is now available to nurses across all its health system clients nationwide. The technology automates clinical documentation during patient encounters, reducing administrative workload and allowing nursing staff to focus more directly on patient care.
- 074TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Point solution sprawl is real, and agentic AI could help
Healthcare IT systems face fragmentation from multiple point solutions, and agentic AI may offer a path to better integration and workflow automation. The piece discusses how AI agents could help coordinate disparate systems and reduce operational complexity for hospital and clinical IT operations.
- 075TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Advanced AI holds promise for high-stakes healthcare, studies show
Mayo Clinic researchers demonstrated that REDMOD, an AI-powered radiomics model, can triple radiologists' sensitivity in detecting pancreatic cancer at early, pre-diagnostic stages using routine abdominal CT scans. The system identifies subtle disease markers before tumors become visually apparent, potentially enabling earlier curative intervention. The findings are part of broader research highlighting AI applications in high-stakes diagnostic scenarios.
- 076TechnologySource · MedCity News
Designing a National-Scale FHIR API Ecosystem Using Apigee: Architecture Patterns for Secure Healthcare Interoperability
A guide addresses technical approaches to building FHIR API infrastructure at national scale using Apigee, focusing on secure interoperability and data exchange between hospital systems. The article explores architecture patterns to reduce data silos in EHR environments and enable cross-system information access.
- 077TechnologySource · Medical Design & Outsourcing
Hamilton Medical selects PTC Codebeamer ALM
Hamilton Medical, a ventilator and respiratory care equipment maker, has selected PTC's Codebeamer ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) platform to replace its legacy system. The multi-year collaboration aims to enhance product development workflows, improve traceability, and strengthen regulatory compliance across Hamilton Medical's engineering and manufacturing operations. PTC will also work with Hamilton Medical to develop market-specific ALM and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) capabilities for the medical device sector.
- 078TechnologySource · Mobi Health News
HIMSSCast: Ambient AI scribes pose important regulatory and legal questions
A HIMSSCast podcast episode examines regulatory and legal challenges posed by ambient AI scribing systems in clinical settings. The discussion addresses how these AI-driven documentation tools fit within existing FDA frameworks, liability questions, and compliance considerations for healthcare providers and vendors deploying such technology in electronic health record workflows.
- 079TechnologySource · Medical Device Network
Nitinol’s journey from a guidewire material to an enabler of complex, multifunctional devices
Nitinol, a nickel-titanium alloy known for its shape-memory and superelastic properties, has evolved from its original use in guidewires to enable more complex, multifunctional medical devices. The material's unique characteristics—ability to return to a predetermined shape after deformation and maintain consistent performance—make it suitable for minimally invasive and interventional applications across cardiology, neurology, and other specialties. Manufacturers continue to innovate formulations and processing techniques to expand nitinol's capability in next-generation device designs.
- 080TechnologySource · Medical Design & Outsourcing
Top takeaways from a new study of an AI-integrated capsule gastroscopy (ACG) system
Researchers at Southern Medical University conducted a study on an AI-integrated capsule gastroscopy system designed to address the shortage of endoscopists and endoscopy equipment for upper gastrointestinal diagnosis. The system combines capsule-based imaging with artificial intelligence to expand diagnostic capacity where traditional endoscopy resources are limited.