CMS creates Office of Health Technology and Products
Naomi Diaz / beckershospitalreview - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has established a new Office of Health Technology and Products to oversee healthcare technology modernization, digital products and platform transformation across the agency’s programs. The organizational chang…
AI Summary: CMS has created a dedicated Office of Health Technology and Products to centralize oversight of digital health tools, including AI and emerging medical technologies. The new office will coordinate evaluation, guidance and implementation policies across CMS programs to speed safe adoption, improve interoperability and provide clearer regulatory expectations for health systems and vendors.
VA deploys Oracle EHR to four medical centers in Ohio, Kentucky
Emily Olsen / healthcaredive - The rollout marks the second wave of deployments in 2026 after the VA largely paused the project for years to fix technical issues and errors.
AI Summary: The Department of Veterans Affairs extended its Oracle Health electronic health record deployment to four additional medical centers in Ohio and Kentucky. The expansion continues the VA’s multi‑site migration to a modernized EHR, bringing new interoperability promises, training needs and the usual teething problems as clinicians and IT teams adjust.
Stanford’s AI discharge summary tool cuts physician burnout
Giles Bruce / beckershospitalreview - Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care piloted an in-house AI agent that generates hospital discharge summaries, finding it reduced physician burnout. Researchers at Stanford (Calif.) Medicine built the tool, calling it MedAgentBrief, and deployed i…
AI Summary: A Stanford-developed AI system for generating hospital discharge summaries significantly reduced clinician workload and improved efficiency in pilot testing. The tool automates routine documentation, freeing physicians from time‑sapping paperwork — a welcome relief for burned‑out clinicians — while prompting careful questions about validation, accuracy and oversight as adoption scales.