Category: Health IT

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist launches virtual primary care practice

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist has introduced a new virtual primary care practice designed to offer patients greater flexibility and accessibility.

University of Rochester Medical Center plans hospital-at-home program

Rochester, N.Y.-based UR Medicine plans to launch a hospital-at-home program in summer 2025.

Mayo Clinic moves cancer care to the home: 5 notes

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has been increasingly providing cancer care in the home.

5 health systems expand care at home with Best Buy

Best Buy has continued to grow its care-at-home partnerships with big health systems.

Finding voices with AI: a call to developers, administrators, and corporations to support ethical speech therapy

As a speech-language pathologist, I’ve dedicated my career to helping people find their voices—sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively. Whether I’m working with children struggling to develop language, adults recovering from strokes or …

Epic and Particle Health's dispute: A timeline

The ongoing legal conflict between Epic Systems, a leading EHR provider, and Particle Health, a health data exchange startup, has unfolded over several key events:

Mississippi hospital to adopt unified EHR system

Starkville, Miss.-based OCH Regional Medical Center is set to launch a new EHR system on Jan. 27, replacing multiple existing platforms with a unified one developed by Cerner. 

Why Saint Luke's plans to expand hospital at home

Kansas City, Mo.-based Saint Luke’s Health System plans to grow its hospital-at-home program, already one of the biggest in the country, once more payers get on board with the care model, a leader told Becker’s.

Telehealth use rises nationally: Report

Telehealth utilization grew across most U.S. regions in October 2024, with the Midwest as the sole exception, according to FAIR Health’s monthly telehealth regional tracker.

CommonSpirit moving 'fast and aggressively' toward single EHR: CEO

When Wright Lassiter III took over as CommonSpirit CEO in 2022 — three years after the merger between Englewood, Colo.-based Catholic Health Initiatives and San Francisco-based Dignity Health was completed — one of his key goals was to unify the health…