If you believe the American healthcare system is in desperate need of a savior, researchers may have found a solution: the development of artificial intelligence. With computers, smartphones and mobile applications becoming commonplace within health organizations, artificial intelligence is poised to be next on the list of integrated healthcare technology.

Preventing surgical site infections could be as easy as shutting the door. Researchers testing air quality in operating rooms (ORs) found that repeatedly opening and closing the OR door increased particle distributions and the risk of contamination.

Chattanooga, Tennessee-based Erlanger Health System expects to top $1 billion in annual revenues by 2019, with patient admission projected to increase by 10 percent in the next fiscal year and no signs of that rapid growth slowing down.

The nearly six million people living with heart failure face a life of monitoring the disease in the event it worsens. This often involves traveling to a physician on a routine basis, but scientists have opened an avenue to in-home monitoring with a simple paper test strip.

Monitoring hospital patients requires more than what conventional fitness trackers can offer. Leaf Healthcare unveiled a comprehensive mobility monitoring system at the American Association of Critical Care Nurses' National Teaching Institute and Critical Care Exposition in Houston.

Community Health Systems (CHS) has rejected an offer of $2.4 billion to buy out the eight-hospital Lutheran Health Network in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Orbita, Inc., a leading provider of voice-first software for connected home healthcare announced today a collaboration withERT to research innovative new approaches to data procurement and management for pharmaceutical and device customers seeking to streamline clinical trials. The collaboration combines the advanced capabilities of ERT’s EXPERT™ technology platform for clinical trial data collection, processing, and analysis with Orbita Voice™, a first-of-its-kind solution for creating conversational applications using intelligent voice agents such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.

Researchers from Cedars-Sinai have been able to extract primary concerns patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have about their biologic medications through social media posts. Findings were published in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, the official journal of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation.