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Doximity is expanding its clinical AI footprint to more than 190 health systems. The company is also positioning clinical reliability as a competitive focus, launching DoseCheck and a partnership with Wolters Kluwer's UpToDate.
Kaiser Permanente's next regional health system acquisition, Redesign Health's merger with Sheba Medical Center's innovation arm and more merger and acquisition news from a busy October.
Health systems are navigating growing demands with increasingly limited resources. As costs rise and teams are stretched, technology has become essential to helping people work smarter.
The country’s largest nonprofit health system and its subsidiaries grew operating revenues to $34.7 billion and padded its operating margin, though a $1.8 billion bottom line came up short compared to last year.
Santa Barbara police opened an investigation after at least 25 half-marathon runners sought medical care on Sunday. The department said at least two dozen participants ended up at the hospital.
Medical students, residents and fellows are adopting artificial intelligence without waiting for formal guidance. The piece is sponsored content from MedCity News and carries no further detail on timing or scale. It says medical education and health systems have yet to catch up with this practice.
Researchers at Mount Sinai received a $4 million NIH grant to build AI models that predict acute kidney injury risk. Acute kidney injury is a common and sometimes serious surgical complication, and the models aim to identify patients most at risk. Providers could then offer individualized preventive care.
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