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- 081TechnologySource · 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.
- 082TechnologySource · 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.
- 083TechnologySource · 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.
- 084TechnologySource · 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.
- 085TechnologySource · 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.
- 086TechnologySource · 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.
- 087TechnologySource · 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.
- 088TechnologySource · 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.
- 089TechnologySource · 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.
- 090TechnologySource · 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.
- 091TechnologySource · 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.
- 092TechnologySource · 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.
- 093TechnologySource · 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.
- 094TechnologySource · 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.
- 095TechnologySource · 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.
- 096TechnologySource · 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.
- 097TechnologySource · 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.
- 098TechnologySource · 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.
- 099TechnologySource · 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.
- 100TechnologySource · 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.
- 101TechnologySource · 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.
- 102TechnologySource · 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.
- 103TechnologySource · 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.
- 104TechnologySource · 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.
- 105TechnologySource · 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.
- 106TechnologySource · MedCity News
Sleep Is the Missing Vital Sign, and Health AI Is Scaling the Consequences
Sleep monitoring is emerging as a critical vital sign for understanding cardiovascular, metabolic, immune, and mental health outcomes. Health AI platforms are enabling continuous overnight data collection and analysis to detect near-term changes and long-range risk patterns. The article examines how systematic sleep measurement integrated with AI diagnostics is shifting clinical decision-making and vendor opportunities in remote patient monitoring.
- 107TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
HIMSSCast: Ambient AI scribes pose important regulatory and legal questions
Ambient AI scribes are gaining traction as tools to reduce clinician time spent on electronic health record documentation. The technology presents regulatory and legal questions for healthcare IT vendors and EHR providers around liability, compliance, and clinical validation. As adoption accelerates, device makers and software vendors will need to navigate FDA oversight, malpractice frameworks, and data governance standards.
- 108TechnologySource · Mobi Health News
Q&A: AI platform targets clinical chart insights beyond LLM limits
Dyania Health has developed Synapsis AI, a clinical AI platform designed to extract context-driven insights from patient charts and answer specific queries rather than generate generic summaries. The platform addresses limitations of large language models in healthcare by focusing on precise, question-driven analysis of medical records, targeting clinical decision support and operational efficiency in healthcare settings.
- 109TechnologySource · Medical Design & Outsourcing
The Quiet Revolution in Battery Technology That’s Powering Your Next Artificial Heart
Advances in lithium-ion battery technology are enabling longer operational lifespans and improved performance in implantable artificial heart devices and robotic surgical systems. The development of smart battery management systems addresses a critical supply-chain constraint for medical device OEMs relying on these power sources for next-generation cardiac support and minimally invasive tools.
- 110TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
At UToledo Health, ambient AI decreases open charts, improves documentation
University of Toledo Health deployed ambient AI technology to reduce clinician documentation burden and improve EHR efficiency. The implementation decreased open charts and improved documentation workflows, addressing a key pain point in clinical operations where EHR administrative tasks have diverted time from direct patient care.
- 111TechnologySource · Medical Design & Outsourcing
AI-enabled medtech introduces risks facilities aren’t ready for, cybersecurity report says
A survey of 551 healthcare professionals across the U.S., U.K., and Germany commissioned by RunSafe Security found that nearly 60% expressed high concern about cybersecurity attacks on medical devices, with some organizations reporting incidents that affected patient care. The report highlights that AI-enabled medical devices are introducing security risks that healthcare facilities may be unprepared to manage.
- 112TechnologySource · MedCity News
6 Things to Know About Medtronic’s Cyberattack
Medtronic disclosed a cyberattack on its corporate IT systems, underscoring rising cybersecurity threats across the medtech sector. The incident involved phishing and social engineering tactics used by cybercriminals to obtain unauthorized access to company data. The attack reflects a broader trend of escalating cyber threats targeting medical device makers and healthcare infrastructure.
- 113TechnologySource · MedCity News
Why Healthcare AI Still Can’t Scale — and How Nvidia & Hoppr Are Trying to Fix It
Nvidia and Hoppr are developing infrastructure to enable healthcare providers to build and deploy custom AI imaging models, addressing scaling challenges in medical AI adoption. Rather than relying on standalone applications, the approach aims to create a foundational layer that allows organizations to train and operationalize models internally, potentially accelerating broader AI implementation across healthcare systems.
- 114TechnologySource · MedCity News
What Dentistry Is Teaching Healthcare About Operational AI
Dental practices are adopting AI to address operational inefficiencies and tight reimbursement cycles, focusing on measurable administrative impact rather than novelty. The experience offers lessons for broader healthcare operations on practical AI implementation and ROI evaluation in cost-sensitive environments.
- 115TechnologySource · MedCity News
How Recent Changes in ‘Patient-Matched’ Technology Are Reshaping the Future of Surgical Care
Patient-matched medical device technology is shifting clinical practice toward personalized treatments, with manufacturers adapting implants and devices to individual patient anatomy rather than requiring patients to accommodate standard designs. This manufacturing and design evolution reflects a broader move toward customization in surgical care.
- 116TechnologySource · Medical Design & Outsourcing
Kingstec advances real-time medical asset tracking
Kingstec Technologies has implemented Technology Trace Inc.'s trevii platform for real-time medical asset tracking at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton in Ontario. The partnership combines Kingstec's manufacturing and logistics expertise with Technology Trace's asset management software to enable hospitals to track medical equipment and supplies in real time.
- 117TechnologySource · MedCity News
Why Some Hospitals Are Betting on Midstream Health to Help Eliminate Waste
Midstream Health, an AI startup, is helping health systems including Mount Sinai and CommonSpirit identify cost-savings opportunities by analyzing fragmented spending data. The platform focuses on optimizing purchasing decisions and waste reduction across hospital operations rather than revenue generation. The approach targets procurement and supply chain efficiency for large health systems.
- 118TechnologySource · MedCity News
Healthcare’s Identity Crisis: Why A Single Prescription Requires Multiple Logins
Healthcare IT systems lack interoperable identity and access management standards, forcing users to authenticate multiple times across disconnected platforms for routine tasks like prescription processing. Industry experts argue the solution requires phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication, adaptive access controls, and standards-based interoperability frameworks to unify authentication across vendors and health systems.
- 119TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
AI may be approaching a new phase in healthcare, on two fronts
Physicians are adopting agentic AI tools like Claude Code to develop custom clinical applications, marking a shift toward clinician-led software development within health systems. While the approach promises to accelerate app creation, industry experts caution that widespread adoption requires new security audits and professional engineering oversight to address AI-generated vulnerabilities and protect patient data.
- 120TechnologySource · Mobi Health News
Interoperability governance gaps put pressure on nationwide exchange networks
Nationwide health information exchange networks are facing pressure to expand responsibilities beyond their original scope as interoperability demands grow, creating questions about whether existing governance structures can adapt. The gaps in governance frameworks are straining networks' ability to support modern data-sharing requirements across healthcare systems.