Tech
Does AI increase healthcare costs? This Blue Cross report says yes
This study adds to the ongoing debate over how AI should be implemented in healthcare.
Cassie McGrath joined Healthcare Brew in May 2024. She previously worked for the Boston Business Journal, MassLive, Frontline PBS, GBH, the Daily Hampshire Gazette and the Massachusetts Daily Collegian. She graduated from the Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2021 with a dual degree in journalism and political science and a certificate in international relations.
Tech
Is AI a Band-Aid for healthcare’s historic problems rather than a fix? A former insurance exec weighs in
“We should use AI to redesign processes, not just make broken processes faster,” he says.
Hospitals & Facilities
Signed and Scrubbed: September 2026 hospital M&A
NYC Health + Hospitals got state approval to acquire a Brooklyn-based, three-hospital system.
Tech
AI 411: September 2026
Your monthly roundup of AI announcements is here.
Tech
Why patients turn to chatbots for medical advice
Patients want “quick and immediate advice,” according to one survey.
Direct Care
One public health expert’s quest to improve violence prevention
Megan Ranney, who has spent much of her career researching violence prevention, told us what she thinks works (and what doesn’t) to limit firearm-related harm.
Hospitals & Facilities
Signed and Scrubbed: August 2026 hospital M&A
For-profit health system Universal Health Services acquired Talkspace for $835 million this month.
Tech
AI 411: August 2026
Your monthly roundup of AI announcements is here.
Tech
Checking in on Mass General Brigham two years after the CrowdStrike outage
The Massachusetts hospital system implemented several changes to prevent harm from future outages.
Hospitals & Facilities
Report: Healthcare CFOs don’t feel prepared to make enterprise decisions
Healthcare CFOs said they aren’t trained to make decisions on patient experience and AI implementation, Deloitte reports.