This month in client partner news, Mass General Brigham wrangles data for COVID-19 research, AI helps lung scans detect the coronavirus at Mount Sinai, Baptist Health is equipping its hospitals with UV light disinfection technology, and more. Read on for these stories and other dispatches from clients including HCA Healthcare, Bon Secours Mercy Health, and ChristianaCare.

With hospitals sustaining a major financial hit due to the COVID-19 pandemic, any reduction in costs would be welcome. And though there are many arguments in favor of the healthcare industry’s use of software as a service (SaaS) solutions, according to a new study, lower spending on IT tops them all.

In this month’s edition of Clients in the News, we look at research that led to AI being used to detect heart disease during lung cancer screenings, a new biotech incubator in New York City from NYU Langone, and Christiana Care’s health IT partnership with Medtronic.

The cure for burnout in the provider population is improved healthcare IT usability and interoperability, according to a new report that urges EHR vendors, payers, providers and regulators to work together to find solutions.

LUMEDX is a proud partner of National Health IT Week and a firm believer that the delivery and management of healthcare is best served by a community of providers linked—and empowered—by technology.

U.S. healthcare organizations spent an estimated $7.1 billion on IT last year, according to a new study by Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP)—more than two and a half times what it was just five years ago.

As electronic health records become ever more ubiquitous, physicians appreciate the value they bring to the hospital setting but would like to see them take things a step further, according to a new study.

As hospital administrators, service line leaders and clinicians work tirelessly to stay on the cutting edge of science and medicine, health IT is increasingly providing the solutions to many new challenges.

Healthcare providers are prioritizing value-based payment models in 2018 IT budgets and data analytics is the category most likely to see an increase in spending, according to a survey from healthcare advisory firm Damo Consulting.

Join LUMEDX at the American College of Cardiology 67th Annual Scientific Session & Expo (ACC.18)—the largest gathering of innovative cardiovascular products and services under one roof—and the National Cardiovascular Data Registry Annual Conference (NCDR.18), a 2½-day program held right before ACC.18 that aims to help hospitals and health systems blaze trails in quality improvement.