News 10/8/25
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The VA will add nine sites to its Oracle Health EHR rollout in 2026.
Four Michigan sites will also go live in 2026.
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Validity of two subjective skin tone scales and its implications on healthcare model fairness
Skin tone assessments are critical for fairness evaluation in healthcare algorithms (e.g., pulse oximetry) but lack validation. Using prospectively collected facial images from 90 hospitalized adults at the San Francisco VA, three independent annotators…
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News 9/24/25
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Oracle promotes Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to co-CEOS, replacing Safra Catz.
Magouyrk was president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and has been with the company 11 years. Sicilia joined the company in 2008 and…
Healthcare AI News 9/10/25
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Bayer will shut down its radiology AI businesses, discontinuing Calantic Digital Solutions AI and the service offerings of Blackford Analysis. A market analyst attributed the move to slow adoption, along with reimbursement barriers that…
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News 7/23/25
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The Senate Appropriations Committee approves a bill that allocates $3.5 billion to the VA to restart its Oracle Health implementation.
The committee also approved $5.9 billion for the VA’s ongoing IT costs.
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News 7/9/25
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Samsung Electronics will acquire digital health integration company Xealth.
Xealth announced an undisclosed amount of funding from Morningside Ventures earlier this year. The company spun out of Providence in 2017 to sell its…
VA now plans 30K in staff reductions by EOY
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday that it expects an additional 12,000 agency employees to depart by September 30 through normal attrition, early retirements, deferred resignations and a federal hiring freeze.WHY IT MATTERS
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Government Hospitals Enhance the Patient Experience With Digital Display Technologies
The Department of Veterans Affairs provides healthcare at 1,380 health facilities across the country, including 170 VA Medical Centers and 1,193 outpatient sites. And while these hospitals and clinics vary in size and technological…
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VA Secretary testifies on the need for increased funding for Oracle EHR rollout
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday that additional funding is critical as the VA works to replace the agency’s VistA electronic health record system with Oracle Health’s…
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Lawmakers draft VA oversight plan for Oracle Health EHR implementation
The House of Representatives’ committees on Veterans’ Affairs and Appropriations and its counterparts in the Senate would have the authority to oversee the Department of Veterans Affairs’ electronic health record modernization program and its…
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