HITshow Daily: January 13, 2026 (Tuesday) — JPM Week Coverage, Day 2
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Today on HITshow:
Continuing JPM week coverage from San Francisco where the big theme is practical: healthcare AI is getting closer to the work, the visit, the record, and the back office. Breaking: NYC nurses strike enters second day with roughly 15,000 nurses walking out across multiple private hospital systems. Plus: HCA and MEDITECH announce Expanse is now live across 43 HCA hospitals, Owkin unveils agentic infrastructure trained on multimodal patient data, Hippocratic AI acquires Grove AI for clinical trial operations, Abridge and Availity team up for real-time prior authorization, and OpenAI reportedly acquiring Torch for around $100M.
HOST: RHONDA BROOKS
📍 Breaking News — Rhonda Brooks
A major NYC nurses strike is now in its second day, with roughly 15,000 nurses walking out across multiple private hospital systems. Hospitals are working to maintain services with contingency staffing, and state leaders have taken emergency steps to give hospitals more flexibility to bring in temporary workers. Both sides continue to urge patients not to delay care.
📍 Health IT — Peter Betterworth
HCA and MEDITECH announced MEDITECH Expanse is now live across 43 HCA hospitals, described as the first large-scale wave of an enterprise rollout. The foundational move sets up standard workflows, cleaner data, and a clearer runway for future automation and decision support.
📍 AI & Machine Learning — Nate Collier (JPM Coverage with Interview)
Owkin unveiled agentic infrastructure trained on multimodal and multi-omics patient data, connecting pathology, imaging, clinical context, and other signals at the per-patient level. Owkin’s Dinesh Divakaran explains patients will soon walk into visits with their own AI-generated summaries, just like clinicians use transcription. For hospital leaders, this means governance matters: who validates summaries, where do they get stored, and how do they influence decision-making without creating risk?
📍 AI & Machine Learning — Jade Romero (JPM Coverage)
Hippocratic AI acquired Grove AI as it expands into life sciences and clinical trial operations. Grove built an always-on, multilingual AI agent called Grace that supports trial participant engagement across voice, text, and email, plus a participant relationship management platform with oversight and regulatory alignment.
📍 Finance & Capital — Teresa Vaughn (JPM Coverage)
Abridge and Availity announced a collaboration aimed at real-time prior authorization tied to the clinician-patient conversation, with plans to extend across more revenue-cycle workflows. The goal is reducing lag between what’s said in the visit and what the payer needs to approve care.
📍 Finance & Capital — Logan Stokes (JPM Coverage)
Multiple reports say OpenAI has agreed to acquire a small healthcare AI startup called Torch, with reporting suggesting a price around $100M in equity. The major AI platforms aren’t just building models, they’re looking for workflow footholds in regulated industries like healthcare.
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