HITshow Daily: September 18, 2025 (Thursday)
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Today on HITshow:
Ardent Health moves from pilot to an enterprise rollout of Ambience’s ambient AI; Ascension narrows losses with labor and cost discipline; Garmin teams with King’s College London on a massive maternal-health dataset; University Hospitals turns on a whole-hospital virtual nursing model with Vitalchat; and we close with a virtual-nursing workforce deep dive featuring VirtuAlly CNO Angel Bozard.
HOST: IDA KLEIN
The Day’s Pulse — Thursday, September 18, 2025
📍 Providers & AI — Jade Romero
Ardent Health moves from pilot to an enterprise rollout of Ambience’s ambient AI after ~140k visits with ~90% encounter utilization and a 45% drop in charting time (~1 hour/day) measured via Epic Signal; ambulatory rollout targeted by end of Q1 2026.
📍 Finance & Operations — Logan Stokes
Ascension trims FY2025 operating loss to 490.9 million dollars (–1.6% margin), a 1.3 billion dollar improvement year over year; 918 million dollars net income, same-facility revenue +6.6% as labor efficiency improves.
📍 Women’s Health & Digital Health — Nate Collier
Garmin partners with King’s College London on EMBRACE as the exclusive smartwatch provider; up to 40,000 adult participants will contribute continuous biometrics for AI models addressing gestational diabetes, pregnancy hypertension, and perinatal depression (announced at the NYSE Summit).
📍 Workforce & Care Delivery — Anika Shah
University Hospitals lights up whole-hospital virtual nursing on Vitalchat at UH Lake West, supporting admissions, discharges, education, and monitoring; next steps include 24/7 ops, virtual observation, and expansion into ED/OR.
📍 Feature — Jalen Cross
Virtual nursing deep dive with VirtuAlly CNO Angel Bozard: why workforce is the pressure point, how webside–bedside role clarity avoids pilot purgatory, and a rural site’s 65% turnover reduction as proof.
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