Deployment

Where AI is actually being switched on: health systems, record vendors, the model companies, and AI-first care. Each item links to the day it ran and to its original source.

• FYIDeployment Nov 4, 2026
  HCA Healthcare puts ambient AI in the hands of 10,000 physicians by year's end and an AI nurse handoff tool in 100 hospitals
  Hospital medicineEmergency medicine
  From the Nov 7, 2026 post · Sources: Becker's Hospital Review (ambient AI), Becker's Hospital Review (nurse handoff)Share
• FYIDeployment Nov 5, 2026
  Mayo Clinic opens an AI chatbot covering more than 35 specialties to its clinicians and partner organizations
  HospitalsPractices
  From the Nov 6, 2026 post · Source: Healthcare DiveShare
• FYIDeployment Nov 5, 2026
  A South Dakota health system blocks OpenEvidence after finding a physician storing more than 100 patient records in it
  HospitalsPractices
  From the Nov 5, 2026 post · Source: STATShare
• FYIDeployment Nov 2, 2026
  Patients of athenahealth practices can now send their records into Claude, and the company says HIPAA does not apply
  PracticesPrimary care
  From the Nov 5, 2026 post · Sources: HIT Consultant, GovInfoSecurityShare
• FYIDeployment Nov 3, 2026
  Humana opens electronic prior authorization to more than 180,000 athenahealth clinicians nationwide
  Practices
  From the Nov 4, 2026 post · Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 29, 2026
  NYU Langone puts OpenEvidence inside its Epic record for 12.4 million outpatient visits a year, residents included
  HospitalsNew YorkFlorida
  From the Oct 30, 2026 post · Source: Unite.AIShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 29, 2026
  Stamford Health pilots FDA-cleared AI that reads routine ECGs for hidden structural heart disease
  Cardiology
  From the Oct 30, 2026 post · Source: egnite (PR Newswire)Share
• FYIDeployment Oct 28, 2026
  Zocdoc opens appointment booking to registered AI agents as agent traffic grows nearly 30-fold since July
  Practices
  From the Oct 29, 2026 post · Sources: Zocdoc, Healthcare DiveShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 26, 2026
  South Carolina rural hospitals get six months of free cybersecurity help from Microsoft, Cisco and others under a state and White House pilot
  RuralHospitalsSouth Carolina
  From the Oct 27, 2026 post · Source: Fierce HealthcareShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 26, 2026
  Mass General Brigham teleneurology and telestroke program reaches more than 20 community and rural hospitals in six months
  NeurologyRural
  From the Oct 27, 2026 post · Source: Andor Health (PR Newswire)Share
• FYIDeployment Oct 26, 2026
  Sutter Health adds heart failure patients to its remote monitoring program, using BodyPort's FDA-cleared scale
  Cardiology
  From the Oct 27, 2026 post · Source: MedCity NewsShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 23, 2026
  Jefferson Health clinicians using Abridge's ambient AI cut time to chart closure 25.3% to 39.3%, NEJM Catalyst study reports
  PracticesPrimary care
  From the Oct 25, 2026 post · Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 23, 2026
  Inova plans to decommission three AI features after a quarterly review finds their performance declining; 92 features remain in production
  Hospitals
  From the Oct 25, 2026 post · Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 22, 2026
  Sentara Health deploys a case management tool built with Regard that answers plain-language questions about patient charts
  Hospitals
  From the Oct 24, 2026 post · Source: Fierce HealthcareShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 22, 2026
  Sutter Health says more than 6,000 clinicians have drafted 5 million notes with Abridge's ambient AI
  Hospitals
  From the Oct 23, 2026 post · Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• WatchDeployment Oct 21, 2026
  Epic opens its AI assistants to third-party apps through Connectors, with marketplace listings from March 2027

  Developer-built Connectors will be listed on Epic Showroom starting in March 2027, Epic said.

  HospitalsPractices
  From the Oct 22, 2026 post · Sources: Epic, Fierce Healthcare, Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 21, 2026
  Consumer chatbots pulling patient records add traffic and cost for Epic customers; Epic adds event alerts to cut repeated data requests
  Hospitals
  From the Oct 22, 2026 post · Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 21, 2026
  Nebraska Medicine shelves its in-house AI cancer registry tool after it reaches a little over 80% accuracy against a 95% bar
  OncologyHospitals
  From the Oct 22, 2026 post · Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 20, 2026
  Doximity adds UpToDate answers to its Ask clinical AI tool for clinicians at health systems that use both products
  All physicians
  From the Oct 22, 2026 post · Sources: Fierce Healthcare, MobiHealthNewsShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 19, 2026
  Siemens Healthineers and Paradromics build an imaging workflow for implanting brain-computer interfaces, starting with speech
  NeurosurgeryNeurology
  From the Oct 20, 2026 post · Source: Fierce BiotechShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 16, 2026
  Cone Health, Health First and Covenant Health end hospital-at-home programs although Medicare's waiver runs through 2030
  Hospitals
  From the Oct 19, 2026 post · Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 16, 2026
  Children's Nebraska switches from Dragon Copilot to Epic's ambient tool as health system CIOs weigh token-based AI pricing
  Hospitals
  From the Oct 18, 2026 post · Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 16, 2026
  UCHealth says nurses have been slow to adopt its homegrown fall-prediction model, while physicians use ambient notes in most visits
  HospitalsHospital medicine
  From the Oct 18, 2026 post · Source: Healthcare IT NewsShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 16, 2026
  Anesthesiologists' national outcomes registry begins pulling data directly from Epic records through a new cloud platform
  Anesthesiology
  From the Oct 18, 2026 post · Source: ANESTHESIOLOGY Daily News (ASA)Share
• FYIDeployment Oct 15, 2026
  UMass Memorial moves its EHR to Microsoft's cloud and will add Accenture agentic AI tools across a 2,400-physician system
  Hospitals
  From the Oct 17, 2026 post · Sources: Accenture, Fierce HealthcareShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 15, 2026
  Elation Health adds AI payment posting to its primary care billing tools, sending partial and denied payments to staff
  Primary carePractices
  From the Oct 17, 2026 post · Sources: Elation Health, Fierce HealthcareShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 15, 2026
  Epic plans a 2027 prescription marketplace showing pharmacy cash prices beside insurance costs before a prescription is sent
  PracticesHospitals
  From the Oct 16, 2026 post · Sources: Epic, Fierce HealthcareShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 13, 2026
  UnitedHealth says AI chart summarization cut review time 33% and AI research cut appeal cycle times 26%
  PracticesHospitals
  From the Oct 15, 2026 post · Source: PYMNTSShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 13, 2026
  Johns Hopkins and OpenEvidence plan to redesign medical training; Northwestern opens the tool in Epic to nurses and pharmacists
  All physicians
  From the Oct 14, 2026 post · Sources: Fierce Healthcare, Northwestern Medicine, Unite.AIShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 12, 2026
  About 75% of Intermountain Health radiologists use Microsoft AI that drafts report impressions, system says
  Radiology
  From the Oct 14, 2026 post · Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 12, 2026
  Function lab results will flow into the Google Health app, where an AI coach can use them for wellness guidance
  Primary care
  From the Oct 14, 2026 post · Source: Function and Google HealthShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 12, 2026
  Google's $179.99 Fitbit Edge adds AI blood pressure and insulin resistance trend alerts, labeled for general wellness only
  Primary careEndocrinology
  From the Oct 13, 2026 post · Sources: Google, Fierce HealthcareShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 9, 2026
  Houston Methodist links operating-room camera AI to 7% more cardiothoracic cases a month; the hospital holds equity in the vendor
  AnesthesiologyGeneral surgery
  From the Oct 10, 2026 post · Sources: Journal of Imaging, Healthcare IT NewsShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 8, 2026
  University of Texas System signs enterprisewide Abridge agreement after a pilot across more than 50 specialties
  HospitalsTexas
  From the Oct 9, 2026 post · Sources: Abridge, Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 1, 2026
  Everlywell sells FDA-authorized mammogram AI that estimates five-year breast cancer risk directly to consumers nationwide
  RadiologyPrimary care
  From the Oct 9, 2026 post · Sources: Everlywell release (Business Wire), AuntMinnie, pharmaphorum, STATShare
• FYIDeployment Oct 8, 2026
  Suki adds a clinical question tool built on UpToDate's new AI interface, available across Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth and Meditech
  All physicians
  From the Oct 9, 2026 post · Source: Fierce HealthcareShare
• Deployment Oct 7, 2026
  Teladoc releases ambient AI scribe and previews camera-based heart and breathing rates for hospital telehealth platform
  From the Oct 8, 2026 post · Sources: Fierce Healthcare, Healthcare DiveShare
• Deployment Oct 6, 2026
  Anthropic lets regional hospitals apply for its most capable cybersecurity models, after partners found 129,000 software flaws
  From the Oct 8, 2026 post · Sources: Anthropic, Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• Deployment Oct 6, 2026
  Ochsner Health says AI screening of its patients for cancer trials raised screening capacity 41% and cut manual work about 75%
  From the Oct 8, 2026 post · Source: Healthcare IT NewsShare
• Deployment Oct 6, 2026
  Patients linking MyChart records to ChatGPT rose more than 7,000% in a month at Advocate Health, which pays part of the cost
  From the Oct 7, 2026 post · Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• Deployment Oct 5, 2026
  Novant Health sells 36 South Carolina urgent care centers as it shifts patients to 24/7 virtual care triaged by K Health's AI
  From the Oct 7, 2026 post · Sources: Becker's Hospital Review (Novant), Becker's Hospital Review (Prisma)Share
• Deployment Oct 2, 2026
  Five health systems hold off on some Epic AI tools; Children's Healthcare of Atlanta cites inaccurate diagnoses and patient locations
  From the Oct 4, 2026 post · Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• Deployment Oct 2, 2026
  AKASA releases autonomous inpatient coding after alpha tests; its customers account for about 10% of U.S. discharges
  From the Oct 3, 2026 post · Sources: Fierce Healthcare, AKASA press pageShare
• Deployment Oct 1, 2026
  AdventHealth opens OpenEvidence to physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other clinical staff inside EHR workflows
  From the Oct 2, 2026 post · Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• Deployment Oct 1, 2026
  UC San Diego Health, Harvard and Anthropic build open-source monitor that checks patient-facing AI advice against a "clinical constitution"
  From the Oct 2, 2026 post · Sources: Becker's Hospital Review (UC San Diego Health), Becker's Hospital Review (Stanford)Share
• Deployment Sept 29, 2026
  Heidi releases agents that pre-chart schedules, draft referrals and sweep panels for overdue screenings, pending clinician approval
  From the Oct 1, 2026 post · Source: Heidi (PR Newswire)Share
• Deployment Sept 28, 2026
  Penn Medicine makes OpenEvidence available to 10,000 clinicians across its seven hospitals
  From the Sept 30, 2026 post · Source: Fierce HealthcareShare
• Deployment Sept 28, 2026
  Cooper pilots Microsoft's Dragon Copilot for nurses in New Jersey after licensing it for more than 1,300 clinicians
  From the Sept 30, 2026 post · Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• Deployment Sept 25, 2026
  Sentara cardiologists use AI plaque analysis on coronary CT to guide therapy; system reports fewer invasive angiograms but gives no figures
  From the Sept 28, 2026 post · Source: Healthcare IT NewsShare
• Deployment Sept 24, 2026
  Radiology practices acquire and tune their own AI and market themselves to recruits and hospitals as "AI-native," STAT reports
  From the Sept 28, 2026 post · Sources: STAT, STAT Health Tech newsletter, Fierce Healthcare funding trackerShare
• Deployment Sept 23, 2026
  Mass General Brigham and GE HealthCare start generative AI research to merge notes, images and plans in radiation therapy workflow
  From the Sept 27, 2026 post · Sources: GE HealthCare, Healthcare IT NewsShare
• Deployment Sept 24, 2026
  Cleveland Clinic, Cedars-Sinai and Denver Health leaders describe when clinical AI needs an outage plan
  From the Sept 27, 2026 post · Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• Deployment Sept 25, 2026
  Hartford HealthCare says autonomous coding raised primary care revenue 17%; patient complaints rose and a neurology pilot was halted
  From the Sept 26, 2026 post · Sources: Becker's Hospital Review, Fierce HealthcareShare
• Deployment Sept 23, 2026
  Cigna and OpenAI build AI tools for oncology nurses and case managers first; insurer says models make no clinical or coverage decisions
  From the Sept 25, 2026 post · Sources: The Cigna Group, Fierce HealthcareShare
• Deployment Sept 23, 2026
  Oracle Health announces oncology EHR with AI agents and lifetime chemotherapy dose tracking; no customers or launch date
  From the Sept 25, 2026 post · Sources: Oracle, Health System CIOShare
• Deployment Sept 24, 2026
  Neko Health opens first U.S. clinic in Manhattan with $499 scan that includes 6,000-image skin exam
  From the Sept 25, 2026 post · Sources: Neko Health, FortuneShare
• Deployment Sept 23, 2026
  August AI, whose chatbot claims 9 million users worldwide, launches $39-a-month U.S. membership with one physician visit
  From the Sept 25, 2026 post · Sources: Fierce Healthcare, Fierce Healthcare (Doctronic pricing)Share
• Deployment Sept 23, 2026
  Epic CEO Judy Faulkner says most development is paused for about six weeks of security work; company says AI roadmap is unchanged
  From the Sept 24, 2026 post · Sources: Fierce Healthcare, In Business Madison (Epic's statement), Becker's Hospital Review (Project Glasswing)Share
• Deployment Sept 22, 2026
  OpenEvidence, used 42 million times by U.S. clinicians in August, to be free in about 100 low- and middle-income countries on Anthropic's models
  From the Sept 24, 2026 post · Sources: Reuters (via The Star), The Next Web, Benzinga, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Nature Medicine (research briefing), Nature Medicine (Matters Arising)Share
• Deployment Sept 23, 2026
  Oracle Health announces five revenue-cycle AI tools, including a pre-claim review of notes for coding gaps; hospital CEO describes 'the bot wars'
  From the Sept 24, 2026 post · Sources: Oracle (announcement), Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• Deployment Sept 22, 2026
  UNC and Duke launch $4.4 million network to help North Carolina's rural and critical-access hospitals choose and monitor AI tools
  From the Sept 24, 2026 post · Source: UNC-Chapel HillShare
• Deployment Sept 22, 2026
  VA selects Abridge and Knowtex for five-year ambient AI contract with $775.72 million ceiling; Abridge live at more than 75 medical centers
  From the Sept 23, 2026 post · Sources: Abridge release (Business Wire), Nextgov, Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• Deployment Sept 22, 2026
  Mass General Brigham does not allow autonomous AI across platforms, digital chief says, as 4,000 Brigham nurses vote Thursday on open-ended strike
  From the Sept 23, 2026 post · Sources: Becker's Hospital Review (Mass General Brigham), Becker's Hospital Review (kill switch), Massachusetts Nurses Association (PR Newswire), The Boston GlobeShare
• Deployment Sept 21, 2026
  Rush moves five-person chart-abstraction job and $1 million contract to AI vendor; CIO says the job is not coming back
  From the Sept 22, 2026 post · Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• Deployment Sept 21, 2026
  DexCare buys Mila Health, whose agents call, text and chat with patients to book and prepare visits, in the second front-door agent deal in a week
  From the Sept 22, 2026 post · Sources: DexCare release (Business Wire), HIT Consultant, Fierce Healthcare (weekly rundown: Hello Patient, Luma)Share
• Deployment Sept 20, 2026
  Heidi says its scribe supports 2.8 million visits a week in 190 countries and 83% of clinicians it surveyed use AI with no employer policy
  From the Sept 21, 2026 post · Sources: Healthcare IT News, Heidi survey release (PR Newswire), Healthcare Dive (Imprivata survey)Share
• Deployment Sept 18, 2026
  Yale New Haven ties AI pilots to advance funding commitments; Rush CIO says no common way exists to model agent costs across platforms
  From the Sept 19, 2026 post · Sources: Becker's Hospital Review (Yale New Haven), Becker's Hospital Review (Rush), Becker's Hospital Review (Utah, Jefferson)Share
• Deployment Sept 17, 2026
  UW Health reviews more than 100 AI features that arrived in a single platform upgrade, sorted into low, medium and high risk
  From the Sept 19, 2026 post · Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• Deployment Sept 16, 2026
  Zocdoc opens its scheduling network to Gemini, Amazon Health AI and health plans, letting chatbots book appointments with 200,000-plus providers
  From the Sept 18, 2026 post · Sources: Zocdoc, Fierce Healthcare (Zocdoc), TechTarget, Fierce Healthcare (Ferry Health), Ferry Health releaseShare
• Deployment Sept 17, 2026
  Sentara to test GW RhythmX point-of-care recommendation engine on 30 primary care clinicians for 90 days, with payer rules and formularies built in
  From the Sept 18, 2026 post · Sources: Sentara Health and GW RhythmX, Fierce Healthcare, GW RhythmX (Presbyterian deployment)Share
• Deployment Sept 14, 2026
  Abridge expands into revenue cycle with a pre-bill tool that checks coded DRGs against what its ambient scribe recorded
  From the Sept 16, 2026 post · Source: Fierce HealthcareShare
• Deployment Sept 15, 2026
  GE HealthCare operations system, live at Duke and Queen's in Honolulu, forecasts bed pressure 72 hours out and assigns estimated discharge days
  From the Sept 16, 2026 post · Source: Fierce HealthcareShare
• Deployment Sept 9, 2026
  ARPA-H pays $62.7 million for heart-failure agents that titrate therapy inside physician-prescribed plans
  From the Sept 16, 2026 post · Sources: STAT, Fierce Healthcare, Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• Deployment Jul 30, 2026
  Akido Labs calls itself the first AI-native health system, with 1 million patients and 100 clinics
  From the Sept 16, 2026 post · Sources: Akido Labs, Hims & Hers Q2 call transcript, Utah Office of AI Policy, Fierce HealthcareShare
• Deployment Aug 20, 2026
  Epic ships Ergo Visit, live at Ochsner since Aug. 3, drafting notes and orders for physician review
  From the Sept 16, 2026 post · Sources: Advisory Board, Epic, Healthcare Dive, Fierce HealthcareShare
• Deployment Sept 15, 2026
  Imprivata survey: 72% of 250 health system leaders report AI tools or agents deployed without formal IT approval; 28% have agentic AI in production
  From the Sept 15, 2026 post · Sources: GlobeNewswire, Fierce HealthcareShare
• Deployment Sept 14, 2026
  Advocate Health pauses nursing ambient rollout; CIO says AI raises total health care costs; Penn Medicine cites about 30% pharmacy prior auth gains
  From the Sept 15, 2026 post · Source: Becker's Hospital ReviewShare
• Deployment Sept 15, 2026
  Knowtex opens health care AI lab, citing its own figures of 79 VA medical centers, 7,000 clinicians and 450,000 documentation hours saved
  From the Sept 15, 2026 post · Sources: PR Newswire, Fierce HealthcareShare