Monday Morning Update 4/13/26

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The VA planned to activate Oracle Health’s EHR this past weekend at four medical centers in Michigan.

Sites in Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Detroit, and Saginaw were scheduled for go-live. VA officials, including VA Secretary Doug Collins, led a rollout celebration at Dingell VA Medical Center in Detroit.

The project has been delayed for three years over cost and safety concerns.

Reader Comments

From Bistro Bob: “Re: AI. If health systems keep using AI to cut jobs, aren’t they also shrinking the pool of people who can afford care? Feels like the same thing happening across the economy, companies save money replacing workers with AI, but then wonder why fewer people can afford what they’re selling.” Not in the short term, since the customers of health systems are insurers, not patients. Further down the road, if AI broadly eliminates jobs, people will lose insurance and show up at hospitals as uncompensated care. That turns into an ugly spiral of higher premiums and more aggressive insurer cost control. Health systems should be more worried about the armies of knowledge workers who will likely be replaced with AI (wisely or not) and who will lose health insurance along with an income, such as businesses that sell houses, cars, consumer electronics, high-end clothing, vacations, private schooling, and personal training, because all of those heavily depend on the discretionary income of the middle and upper classes that is driven by income rather than assets. Summary: health systems don’t lose customers whose jobs disappear, but they will foot some of the bill.

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Sales

• University of Maryland Medical System chooses Visage Imaging’s Visage 7.

People

Premier Health hires Margaret Lozovatsky, MD (American Medical Association) as chief digital information officer.

UF Health promotes Craig Richardville, MBA to SVP / chief digital and information officer.

Announcements and Implementations

UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC Health launch SHIRE, a secure, cloud-based platform that allows researchers to develop and test AI models using real-world clinical data from UNC Health’s EHRs. The organizations will seek partnerships with technology and drug companies to advance their AI solutions.

Government and Politics

CMS launches a Medicare App Library that highlights tools from 50 companies.

Sponsor Updates

• Wolters Kluwer accelerates its AI leadership with a new AI Center of Excellence and Foundation and Beyond AI enablement platform.
• Vyne Medical offers a new playbook titled “The People-Process-Technology Playbook for Smarter Healthcare Workflows.”
• The RxWallet consumer smartphone app goes live on the FDB Vela e-prescribing network.
• Qure.ai will exhibit at ATS 2025 May 17-19 in Orlando.
• TruBrige expands its collaboration with RSM US to expand advisory, financial, and operational support services for community healthcare providers.
• Utah Business names Waystar CEO Matt Hawkins CEO of the Year.

Blog Posts

• April 2026 ICD-10-CM Updates Include Significant Instructional and Sequencing Changes (AGS Health)
• Payment models keeping up with the pace of patients (Altera Digital Health)
• Best HIPAA Compliant Fax Options for Healthcare? Here’s the Truth Behind the Term (Vyne Medical)
• Leveraging AI to Reduce Administrative Burden (Netsmart)
• Cerner to Epic: Understanding the Impact on Clinical Workflows (Optimum Healthcare IT)
• Is Your Hospital Still Non-Compliant? CMS Price Transparency Fines Are Now a Reality (SlicedHealth)
• Preparing for the IPF-PAI: What inpatient psychiatric facilities need to know (WellSky)

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