Samwise Healthcare IT Newsletter
Sunday, August 9, 2026
NYU Langone’s formula for turning hospital tech into a business
NYU Langone Health has commercialized an AI oncology decision-support platform called Solavia Decision Suite, co-developed with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and embedded in the electronic health record. The tool went live internally on June 30 and is now available to other health systems, with Accenture supporting implementation. The launch came through NYU Langone’s Tech Opportunities and Ventures office, which recorded more than 100 licensing agreements and helped launch 20 startups in fiscal year 2025. The model reflects a broader shift among health systems toward treating internally developed technology as a source of commercial revenue rather than solely a cost center.
Sources: Becker’s Hospital Review
Health systems begin to embrace the AI-informed patient
Patients are arriving at clinical appointments with AI-generated health research in hand, and health system leaders say the shift is reshaping clinical encounters. Mayo Clinic Platform COO Maneesh Goyal and UC Health COO Robert Wiehe told Becker’s that clinicians at both institutions are now trained to treat AI-assisted patient conversations as a starting point rather than a diagnosis to refute. More than 40 million Americans use AI tools daily for health questions, according to OpenAI. UC Health has expanded its MyChart digital tools in response. Both executives describe the change as inevitable and say health systems must adapt workflows accordingly.
Sources: Becker’s Hospital Review
Where departing health system CIOs are heading
Nearly 20 health system chief information officers changed roles in 2026 amid continued leadership turnover in the C-suite. Prominent departures include SSM Health CDIO Saad Chaudhry, who joined Evergreen Healthcare Partners as CEO; Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia CDIO Shakeeb Akhter, who moved to Memorial Sloan Kettering as chief digital officer; and Prisma Health SVP and CIO Rich Rogers, who retired after more than 13 years. A WittKieffer survey found that 53 percent of health system CIOs have held their role three years or fewer, 39 percent have a succession plan, and 25 percent have none at all.
Sources: Becker’s Hospital Review
The cost of 4 health system Epic projects
Four health systems have disclosed costs for recent Epic electronic health record installations, revealing price tags ranging from $40 million to $175 million. Children’s Minnesota is spending $175 million on a 15-month implementation replacing two legacy systems. Nicklaus Children’s Hospital paid approximately $75 million to move from Oracle Health to Epic in a single-phase transition. Cone Health is investing $40 million to rebuild its existing Epic environment after 14 years of accumulated technical debt. South Central Regional Medical Center in Laurel, Mississippi, committed $115 million over 10 years, covering a one-year go-live plus long-term shared digital infrastructure.
Sources: Becker’s Hospital Review
Hospitals must prove they can make AI operational at scale
Most health organizations that have demonstrated measurable value from artificial intelligence are not expanding their AI programs at pace, a Carta Healthcare survey found. Seventy-one percent of organizations with confirmed AI results said they were not scaling quickly, with EHR integration identified as the top barrier by 44 percent of respondents. Clinician trust concerns and regulatory uncertainty each ranked at 26 percent. Clinical leaders have emerged as the most common owners of AI strategy across health systems, yet 26 percent of organizations have no defined AI owner. Ninety-two percent said clinical domain expertise is critical when selecting AI vendors.
Sources: Healthcare IT News
How big is the provider Transparency in Coverage data gap?
Most health system finance executives are not using federally mandated price transparency data for payer contract negotiations, according to a joint survey by HFMA and Trek Health of 161 provider organization leaders. Forty percent of respondents said they do not use Transparency in Coverage data in negotiations, with 44 percent citing inadequate time and resources. More than 60 percent reported difficulty forecasting reimbursements, yet only 26 percent proactively modeled the financial impact of payer policy changes before they were affected. Rate benchmarking was the top use case, cited by 25 percent. Researchers identified knowledge fragmentation as the larger underlying problem, exceeding digital readiness gaps.
Sources: Healthcare IT News
Boston Children’s Hospital named in North Korean hacking operation
Security researcher Vangelis Stykas spent 22 months inside North Korean hacker command-and-control infrastructure and documented connections to 1,640 organizations across 57 countries, including Boston Children’s Hospital, in a presentation at the Black Hat security conference. The operation, called “Contagious Interview” and tracked since 2022, recruits software developers through fake job postings and installs malware on their devices. Stykas found that hackers accidentally infected their own systems with their own tools, revealing victim rosters. Some contractors had simultaneous access to more than 30 companies. Boston Children’s said a former contractor’s device was tied to a COVID-19 database but that no hospital systems were accessed and credentials were disabled within hours.
Sources: Becker’s Hospital Review
Claryx raises $3.5M to detect hospital infection outbreaks
New York startup Claryx has raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding to commercialize a genomic surveillance platform designed to identify the sources of hospital-acquired infections. The round was led by Outlander VC and included Company Ventures, Boost VC, Neon, Mana Ventures, 640 Oxford, and Precursor Ventures. The company’s CloneLink platform sequences pathogens from confirmed patient infections and compares genetic fingerprints against environmental samples collected from hospital air, water, and surfaces to trace transmission chains. Multiple health systems are already using the platform. Healthcare-acquired infection rates have declined from one in 31 patients in 2015 to one in 38 in 2023.
Sources: MobiHealthNews
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