Samwise Healthcare IT Newsletter
Friday, June 5, 2026
Health Systems Welcome Anthropic Cybersecurity Initiative as Project Glasswing Opens to Healthcare
Health system cybersecurity leaders said they welcome AI company Anthropic's decision to expand its Project Glasswing vulnerability-detection initiative to healthcare, following the June 2 inclusion of approximately 150 organizations representing critical industries. The program, launched in April after Anthropic opted not to release its Mythos AI model publicly because it could autonomously identify and exploit software vulnerabilities, has already surfaced more than 10,000 critical security flaws. Tampa General Hospital, Baptist Health South Florida and Yale New Haven Health are among healthcare organizations now participating. Anthropic has warned that competing AI developers may have similar capabilities within six to twelve months, creating an urgent remediation window for health systems.
Sources: Becker's Hospital Review
Mayo Clinic Partners With Microsoft to Build Healthcare-Specific Frontier AI Model
Mayo Clinic and Microsoft announced a partnership Thursday to develop a frontier artificial intelligence model dedicated to healthcare. The collaboration will combine Mayo Clinic's de-identified clinical data with Microsoft's AI engineering and cloud capabilities to build a model focused on clinical reasoning, earlier diagnosis and personalized treatment planning. Mayo Clinic will own the model, which will first be deployed and refined within the health system's clinical environment before Microsoft makes it accessible to other organizations through its Azure Foundry AI platform. The announcement reflects Mayo's broader push to apply AI across its operations and extends the health system's prior work in AI-powered cancer detection and imaging.
Sources: Healthcare Dive
Wolters Kluwer and OpenAI Expand Enterprise AI Partnership Supporting 2,000-Plus Hospitals
Wolters Kluwer and OpenAI announced an expanded enterprise AI collaboration Thursday, giving the healthcare information company access to OpenAI's application programming interface and platform capabilities. Wolters Kluwer will deploy OpenAI's tools through its in-house Foundation and Beyond AI platform, which supports its Expert AI product suite across healthcare and other professional markets. Among the most directly affected products is UpToDate Expert AI, a generative AI version of the company's evidence-based clinical decision support tool. As of April 30, more than half of Wolters Kluwer's U.S. Enterprise Edition customers, representing about 2,000 hospitals, had adopted UpToDate Expert AI, with the company expecting that figure to reach approximately 70 percent by midyear.
Sources: MobiHealthNews
Anthropic Calls for Infrastructure to Enable Global Pause on Frontier AI Development
Anthropic urged governments and technology companies Thursday to build the tools needed for a verifiable temporary pause in frontier AI development, arguing that self-improving AI systems are advancing faster than safeguards can keep pace. The AI company's research arm released a report warning that the length of tasks Claude models can complete reliably is doubling roughly every four months, and that the company expects its AI to outperform its own engineers at coding within the year. For health system IT leaders adopting Claude for Healthcare — including Banner Health, CommonSpirit Health and Stanford Health Care — the accelerating pace creates challenges in validating AI tools across model update cycles.
Sources: Becker's Hospital Review
WVU Health Commits $800M to Acquire Independence Health, Including New EHR Installation
West Virginia University Health System and Greensburg, Pennsylvania-based Independence Health signed a definitive agreement Thursday on WVU's planned acquisition of the five-hospital system. As part of the deal, WVU Health will invest $800 million into Independence's facilities, including installing a new electronic health record system and upgrading hospital infrastructure. The acquisition is expected to close in September or October pending regulatory approval. Independence, formed in 2023 through the merger of Butler Health System and Excela Health, has recorded operating losses each year since its formation, while WVU Health System reported $939 million in net income last year on $8.6 billion in operating revenue.
Sources: Healthcare Dive
Novant Health Launches AI Surgical Assistant Aubrey to Guide Patients via Text Message
Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based Novant Health has launched an AI-powered surgical patient assistant called Aubrey, developed in partnership with Qventus, according to a June 4 announcement. The text-message-based virtual assistant guides patients through pre-surgical preparation, providing fasting reminders, medication instructions, day-of-procedure logistics and early clinical concern flagging for follow-up by the care team. Novant described the tool as a human-in-the-loop system built in a HIPAA-compliant environment. Aubrey is free and optional for eligible patients and is not intended for emergency situations. The pilot expands Novant Health's use of AI across its 19-hospital system in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
Sources: Becker's Hospital Review
Novant Health Reports 1,595 Freed Inpatient Bed Days From Hospital-at-Home Program
Novant Health reported Thursday that its hospital-at-home program has admitted 482 patients and conducted 5,378 virtual visits since launching at Hanover Regional Medical Center in 2024, freeing up more than 1,595 inpatient bed days while recording zero healthcare-acquired infections and high patient satisfaction scores. The Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based health system is using the results to urge private payers and federal policymakers to support broader adoption of the care model. The current federal CMS waiver for acute hospital care at home expires in 2030, and private insurance coverage for the service remains inconsistent. Advocates are calling for permanent waivers and wider payer coverage to sustain hospital-at-home programs nationwide.
Sources: Becker's Hospital Review
Drug Discovery AI Startup Apoha Raises $36M for Liquid State Intelligence Platform
London-based AI startup Apoha emerged from stealth Thursday with $36 million in funding to expand its Liquid State Intelligence platform, which uses AI to analyze how molecules and materials behave under real-world conditions, accelerating drug discovery by providing empirical data that traditional laboratory assays cannot capture at scale. The round was led by Singular, with participation from Draper Associates and other investors, as well as grant funding from UK innovation agency Innovate UK. Pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim already uses Apoha's platform to identify high-risk antibody candidates with greater than 90 percent precision from just 8 micrograms of material, saving months of development time and reducing costly failed candidates.
Sources: MobiHealthNews
Curated by JD · samwise.agency
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