Samwise Healthcare IT Newsletter
Monday, June 15, 2026
CMS creates Office of Health Technology and Products to modernize digital infrastructure
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has created a new Office of Health Technology and Products to lead the modernization of Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP digital infrastructure, the agency announced this week. Led by CMS deputy administrator and chief product officer Amy Gleason, the office oversees digital product design, delivery and operations across beneficiary-, provider- and state-facing systems. It comprises eight groups, including an Open Source Program group developing policies around open-source frameworks, a Division of Data and Interoperability Platforms, and a Division of Policy responsible for interoperability regulations and sub-regulatory guidance. The reorganization advances CMS’s broader push on data sharing and interoperability across federal health programs.
Sources: Healthcare Dive
Abridge partners with Eli Lilly and Nvidia as AI scribe expands toward payers
AI documentation firm Abridge announced several partnerships Thursday, including collaborations with drugmaker Eli Lilly and technology company Nvidia, as it expands its platform toward payers and life science companies. Abridge is working with Nvidia to build a foundation model geared toward clinical conversations, and Lilly is making an undisclosed strategic investment, CEO Shiv Rao said during a keynote. Founded in 2018, Abridge develops an AI scribe and now works with more than 300 health systems, including Kaiser Permanente, Johns Hopkins Medicine and Yale New Haven Health. Northwestern Medicine plans to roll out Abridge’s tools. The company also partnered with medical organizations to expand clinical decision support and coding.
Sources: Healthcare Dive
Digital Medicine Society leads coalition to make contracted virtual care providers discoverable
The Digital Medicine Society launched a coalition to close an operational gap that leaves contracted virtual care providers invisible to patients, the organization said this week. Commercial payers, virtual-first care providers and policy advisors will co-develop tools, best practices and standards over a three-and-a-half-month sprint, building a framework that establishes a minimum viable data standard and a 90-day readiness scorecard. The effort aligns with the No Surprises Act and Medicare Advantage directory data submission requirements as CMS enforces provider directory accuracy this year. Omada Health is supporting the project. DiMe said prior work cut time-to-contract by up to 18 months, and it anticipates releasing toolkit resources later this year.
Sources: Healthcare IT News
Hartford HealthCare integrates PatientGPT into its portal as a clinically governed AI front door
Hartford HealthCare has integrated PatientGPT, a patient-facing AI assistant built with vendor K Health, into its patient portal and clinical infrastructure, the health system told Healthcare IT News. The tool references a patient’s electronic health record to personalize responses and connects to scheduling and the system’s 24/7 virtual care platform, using a human-in-the-loop design that does not diagnose or prescribe. Before launch, physicians tested the platform using 478 structured clinical transcripts, producing a 70% reduction in high-risk failure rates, lowering the rate to 5.9%. The system reports zero harm events since production. About 40,000 users are activated, with deployment ultimately reaching more than 400,000 primary care patients.
Sources: Healthcare IT News
Curated by JD · samwise.agency
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