Midstream Health is taking a bit of a different approach to healthcare AI by focusing on reducing hospitals’ costs rather than boosting their revenue. The startup uses AI to identify savings opportunities across fragmented spending data, which helps health systems like Mount Sinai and CommonSpirit quickly improve their purchasing decisions.

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Contract negotiations between Mount Sinai and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield broke down this week, leaving the health system completely out of Anthem’s insurance network. The dispute reflects broader pressures on payers and providers, with rising costs and administrative inefficiencies driving contentious contract battles and highlighting the need for deeper cost-control innovation.

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Mount Sinai Health System is betting on Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot as its ambient scribing tool of choice, a decision that followed competitive tests against rival vendors Abridge and Suki. Lisa Stump, Mount Sinai’s chief digital information officer, noted that the health system has been transparent with Microsoft that their partnership may change given Epic’s launch of a built-in AI charting tool earlier this month.

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Mount Sinai researchers found that popular AI chatbots like ChatGPT and DeepSeek R1 can generate convincing but false medical information when given even a single fabricated term in a prompt. While the study underscored the need for stronger safeguards, its lead author noted that generative AI still holds major promise for reducing clinician workload if used responsibly.

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Many people don’t take well to the term “healthcare consumer,” or have expressed that they prefer to be referred to as a patient rather than a consumer. But in the U.S., it’s a plain fact that people have choices when it comes to their healthcare. In this piece, three health system executives give their take on why “patient” and “consumer” are often one in the same — and why hospitals need to be mindful of this.

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Health systems aren’t seeing a ton of ROI when it comes to their AI investments quite yet, as use of the technology is still in an iterative stage. However, Mount Sinai CEO Brendan Carr thinks that is likely to change in the next couple years.

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Mount Sinai is out of network for UnitedHealthcare’s employer-sponsored and individual plans as of January 1 due to a payment dispute. Both parties are likely at fault for getting to this point, one expert declared.

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Through a partnership with Mount Sinai Solutions, Instacart is offering post-operative and post-partum patients a grocery stipend. Instacart is also launching co-branded Medicare Advantage plans with Alignment Healthcare that address food insecurity issues for seniors.

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Resident physicians at Mount Sinai’s Elmhurst Hospital in Queens have voted to authorize a strike. The union that represents these residents has noticed significant disparities in Mount Sinai’s compensation and benefits when compared to the resident physicians employed at the health system’s flagship hospital in Manhattan.

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Mount Sinai researchers published a study that could improve neuroscientists’ understanding of the progression of Alzheimer’s and other forms of cognitive decline. It proved that white matter may be a more important region to look at than was previously thought.

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The rising levels of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes in American youth is quickly becoming a major public health concern. To help address this problem, Mount Sinai partnered with mPulse Mobile, a company that offers a AI-based mobile patient messaging platform. Together with a group of teenage community members, they created a text message-based youth diabetes prevention program focused on integrating healthy behaviors into teens’ lives.

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Of 26 health systems surveyed by MedCity News, nearly half used automated tools to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, but none of them were regulated. Even as some hospitals continued using these algorithms, experts cautioned against their use in high-stakes decisions.

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As Covid-19 cases started escalating last April, providers in hotspot states, like New York, California and Washington, had to quickly pivot their IT plans. These are some of the decisions that five health IT leaders made — aside from expanding telehealth — that helped their health systems survive the first wave of the pandemic and beyond.

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The New York City-based health system implemented Current Health’s remote patient monitoring solution to enhance its cancer care services. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, cancer care has been severely delayed, and the health system aims to provide more consistent care to this patient group through the new solution.

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Companies are employing AI to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic in a number of different ways, including diagnosing Covid-19 cases, identifying which patients would be at highest risk and discovering potential treatments. But not all of these approaches have been validated, experts warned. 

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Six hospitals received grants from the Federal Communications Commission to expand their telehealth programs to prevent the spread of Covid-19. The first six grants are just a portion of the $200 million the FCC will distribute through the program.

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Mount Sinai Health System spinoff Rx.Health launched a new set of tools to prevent physician burnout, starting with voice assistant startup Suki Health.

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Nines, a teleradiology company using machine learning to triage important cases, raised a $16.5 million funding round led by Accel and 8VC.

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This investment in Rx.Health, which has a solution that enables physicians to prescribe evidence-based apps, marks the first time the AGA has invested in a startup.

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As part of the partnership, the Mount Sinai spinout OOVA’s tool will be available to more than 3 million potential customers and 35,000 clinicians through bundled sales with Thorne supplements.

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The goal of the OWKIN Loop Network, which includes hospitals and research institutions in the United States and Europe, is to advance knowledge sharing in the medical research field.

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Black Granite Capital led the round, which the company, Jump Technologies, will use to expand its sales efforts and support product development.

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The company’s first product, a diagnostic aid known as KidneyIntelX is aiming to identify patients at risk for particularly fast progression of kidney disease.

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The investment banking company has tapped Dr. David Stark, who was previously at Mount Sinai, to serve as its CMO and head of HR data and analytics, reports Business Insider.

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Formerly known as Responsive Health, the Mount Sinai spinoff will use the financing to help launch the new capability, which allows care teams to prescribe digital therapeutics and patient-centric care plans to entire groups of people.

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The Center for Biomedical Blockchain Research will explore technology’s application to healthcare and industry partnerships.

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Mount Sinai Health System is boosting its interest in pop health initiatives by collaborating with Lumeris. The St. Louis-based company will lend a hand with its technology and value-based model.

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The suit claims that the stress of knowing his coworkers could know about his HIV status caused the man to quit his job and lose his health insurance benefits.

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Mount Sinai Health System’s new spinout company, Sema4, will rely on genomic and clinical data to better diagnose, treat and prevent diseases.

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In establishing the Mount Sinai Robotic Institute, the health system aims to achieve the best results for patients by optimizing robotic technology and multidisciplinary care.

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