Fool one healthcare facility, shame on you. Fool 40 of them? There…might be a bigger problem at play.

Maryland resident Thomasina Amponsah pleaded guilty to working as a nurse at not one, not two, but 40+ facilities across Maryland despite never having a nursing license, according to an Aug. 14 release from the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland.

Fraudulent nurses have been arrested in several states over the last year, from Pennsylvania to Florida, involving everything from stolen identities to fake degrees. People have also impersonated doctors and other professionals.

It’s a rare but avoidable mistake that puts patients’ lives and a healthcare facility’s reputation at risk, Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, president of trade organization the American Nurses Association, told us.

Fake nurses can weaken patient-provider trust, an expert says.—CC

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now commonplace in healthcare. Robust rules for the tech? Not so much, according to a new report.

About 88% of 233 health system executives said their system uses AI in some form, but only 18% have a mature governance structure and full AI strategy, according to an Aug. 12 report from the professional membership organization Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and Eliciting Insights, a healthcare strategy and market research company.

“I think a lot of organizations need to step back and say, ‘Oh, wait, we have 10 departments doing work with AI,’” Richard Gundling, HFMA’s SVP of professional practice, told Healthcare Brew. “We need an overall governance structure now, so each department is using it the same way, the same oversights are done.”

See more insights from the report here.—CC

Welcome back to AI 411, a monthly roundup of artificial intelligence (AI) announcements from across the healthcare industry.

The big news this month was Epic announcing its new suite of AI tools, including integrating an ambient scribe into the electronic health record (EHR) giant’s platform. (We spoke with other AI note-taking platform startups to see how they’re feeling about the news.)

Here’s the rundown of health-related AI updates from around the industry in August.

Artisight. Smart hospital company Artisight announced Aug. 28 it can now autonomously document operating room activity into EHRs. The tool could reduce administrative burden on clinicians and also prompt staff to do things like scrub up when a patient enters the room. Similar tools from the company are already used in patient rooms at health systems like York, Pennsylvania-based WellSpan and Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine.

Here’s the full list.—CM

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