Daily EHR & Health IT Brief
Most Important Today
- ★ How a purpose-built digital twin is changing hospital operations — Vedant Bhosale (14 Nov 2025) Hospitals are turning to digital twins to simulate patient flow, ADT dynamics, and resource constraints in real time, enabling proactive bed management and smoother discharges. The approach aims to cut boarding, reduce delays, and improve throughput in complex, shifting environments.
Why It Matters: Operational digital twins can drive measurable LOS and throughput gains, but they require high-quality ADT/OR/ED data integration, clear governance, and change management to translate insights into frontline action. - ★ Priming the Ambient AI Medical Scribe with Skriber — Andy Oram (14 Nov 2025) Skriber emphasizes clinician training and “priming” techniques to improve ambient AI scribe accuracy and note quality, rather than promising zero behavior change. The guidance focuses on consistent workflows to optimize outputs and reduce post-visit edits.
Why It Matters: Ambient AI documentation hinges on adoption and workflow discipline; building training, prompt standards, and EHR integration into rollout plans is key to realizing time savings and reducing after-hours charting. - ★ Breaking the Reactive Drug Shortage Cycle with Predictive Analytics — Guest Author (14 Nov 2025) With drug shortages at record highs, this piece advocates for predictive models that forecast supply risk and prioritize substitutions, inventory, and purchasing. Hospitals can move from manual, reactive work to systematic risk scoring and scenario planning.
Why It Matters: Predictive pharmacy analytics can protect patient care and margins—success requires clean formulary/usage data, wholesaler feeds, and governance to operationalize recommendations across pharmacy, finance, and care teams. - ★ MediView Closes $24 Million Series A to Redefine Surgical Navigation and Medical Imaging with Augmented Reality — Healthcare IT News (14 Nov 2025) MediView’s FDA-cleared AR platform fuses CT with live ultrasound to provide intraoperative “X-ray vision,” backed by GE HealthCare, Mayo Clinic, and Cleveland Clinic. The company targets safer, more precise image-guided procedures and team collaboration in the OR.
Why It Matters: AR navigation promises precision and training benefits but demands PACS/ultrasound integration, sterile workflow fit, device security hardening, and a clear ROI tied to case time, exposure, and complication reductions.
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Other Healthcare Technology
- ★ Savista Acquires ONCO Services, Expanding Cancer Registry Leadership and RCM Capabilities — Healthcare IT News (14 Nov 2025) Savista is integrating oncology registry services with its revenue cycle offerings to deliver broader end-to-end support. The combination could streamline cancer data capture and coding while aligning registry insights with downstream reimbursement.
Why It Matters: Linking registry and RCM functions can improve data quality and reimbursement but requires tight EMR/tumor registry integration, compliance with reporting standards, and clear SLAs to avoid handoff gaps. - ★ From Math to Medicine: Yann Gaston-Mathé’s Mission to Transform Drug Discovery with AI and Robotics – Life Sciences Today Podcast Episode 35 — Danny Lieberman (14 Nov 2025) Iktos pairs generative AI design constrained by synthetic feasibility with robotic chemistry to accelerate compound synthesis at scale. The aim is faster iteration cycles from in-silico designs to bench validation.|
Why It Matters: While life-sciences focused, partnerships with academic medical centers could expand translational research; leaders should track compute, IP, and data governance implications for cross-institution collaboration. - ★ Can tech restore the human side of care? — Ella Jeffries (14 Nov 2025) A look at how next-gen tools—ambient documentation, automation, and better UX—could reverse screen-time burdens created by earlier EHR waves. The piece argues that design and workflow fit determine whether tech gives time back to patients.
Why It Matters: Prioritize solutions that measurably reduce documentation and clicks; embed human-centered design, clinician co-creation, and change management to avoid adding yet another layer of workflow friction.
Why It Matters — A Healthcare Leader’s Perspective
Today’s themes converge on orchestrating AI and real-time operations: ambient documentation to reclaim clinician time, predictive analytics to stabilize pharmacy supply chains, digital twins to optimize patient flow, and AR to enhance procedural precision. Real value will hinge on disciplined data integration, security hardening of new edge devices, and robust change management that turns promising algorithms and interfaces into sustained, measurable improvements in throughput, safety, and clinician experience.
