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Health systems may be less resilient to a major cyberattack than they assume when critical dependencies—especially water—are disrupted, according the, “2025 Americas Hobby Exercise After Action Report,” from H-ISAC. This year’s Hobby Exercise expanded beyond healthcare to include the water sector, revealing how outages in essential services can complicate cyber response and clinical operations. Participants repeatedly […]
There’s an underlying practicality to my reading: I’m always looking for things I can use—ideas I can apply to be, do and feel better; to help me navigate life’s storms and deal with the aftermath when they blow through. One of the books that truly did the trick was Seneca’s “Letters from a Stoic”—missives of […]
Priti Patel, MD, CMIO, John Muir Health, is steering a measured expansion of AI from long-running predictive models to newer generative tools, pairing administrative relief with cautious governance and education for clinicians and patients. Under her direction, the system has deployed ambient scribing across ambulatory practices and is extending that footprint to inpatient and emergency […]
At Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Epic-integrated AI continues to do what humans rarely can at the tail end of long patient visits: captures every detail, improves coding accuracy, and eases the documentation burden. Greg Lawton, MD, EHR Medical Director – CHOP Primary Care, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, describes a measured path to deploying generative AI […]
I knew it was going to be a busy day. The kids had school and, right afterward, I had to pick up my 16-year-old and take him to the dentist for his six-month cleaning. Since we all know how well teenagers care for their teeth, I consider these visits essential. But when Tyler woke up […]
Amid an era of exuberance around AI, John Halamka, MD, President, Mayo Clinic Platform, notes that the apparent “suddenness” of its appearance masks a long arc of work. “This is a overnight revolution, 50 years in the making,” he said, noting that today’s breakthroughs rest on decades of progress in compute, storage, and tooling—combined with […]
Health systems eager to lighten the documentation burden on providers are moving from small pilots to enterprise rollouts of ambient AI tools, according to panelists at the healthsystemCIO webinar “Optimizing Ambient AI Adoption Across the Care Team.” Leaders from Seattle Children’s, Beth Israel Lahey Health, and Heidi Health described rapid clinician uptake, a broadening set […]
I was sitting in my living room watching an exceptional Netflix documentary when the thought hit me: “If he had only read his Lincoln.” Now, what I really should have thought was “If he had only read about Lincoln,” but the point was still valid. The documentary—“America’s Team: The Gambler & His Cowboys”—recounts the story […]
Kerry Bommarito, PhD, VP, Enterprise AI and Decision Intelligence, Mercy, says the health system’s AI agenda begins with the enterprise plan, not shiny tools. After the executive team sets five organization-wide OKRs each fiscal year, work streams cascade to accountable leaders; Bommarito is a trustee on a key result aimed at revenue-cycle improvements through automation […]
Michael Weiss, MD, Associate CMIO, Memorial Healthcare System; and Assistant Medical Director Pediatric Emergency Medicine Joe Dimaggio Children’s Hospital, is leading a push to curb idiosyncratic documentation that can undermine quality, compliance, and the value of emerging AI. In a wide-ranging discussion, he described a “Rogue Note” campaign that preserves clinician flexibility but insists that […]
