--- title: "DIGI-HEALTH MONITOR Calendar Week 46, 2025" language: "en" type: "post" original_url: "https://www.atlas-digitale-gesundheitswirtschaft.de/en/blog/2025/11/19/digi-health-monitor-calendar-week-46-2025/" human_version: "../../../../../../mensch/en/blog/2025/11/19/digi-health-monitor-calendar-week-46-2025/" date: "2025-11-19" section: "Monitor" categories: ["Monitor"] reading_time: "3 Min." description: "Telehealth and digital tools are expanding access and efficiency, from Arkansas Children’s remote cardiac imaging to PAHO’s offline vaccination app for low-connectivity regions. At the same time, hospitals are prioritizing cybersecurity and deploying AI for operations and documentation—cutting OR wa" publisher: "Lehrstuhl für Management und Innovation im Gesundheitswesen, Universität Witten/Herdecke" --- # DIGI-HEALTH MONITOR Calendar Week 46, 2025 *November 19, 2025 · Monitor* ## DIGI-HEALTH MONITOR: Calendar Week 46, 2025 ## **************Arkansas Children’s uses telemedicine to provide much-needed cardiac MRIs and CTs************** Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH, Little Rock) implemented a tele-operations model so expert cardiac MRI/CT technologists and faculty could remotely set up sequences, supervise acquisitions and perform post-processing for patients imaged at Arkansas Children’s Northwest (ACNW, Springdale). Local ACNW nurses and technologists manage IVs, positioning and contrast administration while ACH teams remotely configure scanners and oversee image quality, with ACH cardiovascular imaging faculty interpreting the studies. The program, built on Philips’ Radiology Operations Command Center, launched in mid-2024 after extensive testing and team training. In its first year the service completed ≈41 cardiac MRIs and 32 cardiac CTs at ACNW, creating new local access without reducing ACH volumes; combined system demand continued to grow. Waitlists expanded at ACNW to ~5 months (MRI) and ~3 months (CT), reflecting pent-up demand now captured locally. Leaders highlight success factors: high-performance team dynamics, trust and preparation; dedicated IT support; and continuous optimization/troubleshooting across linked, complex systems. The service reduced travel burdens (previously six-hour round-trips) and enabled standard-of-care follow-up for patients who otherwise deferred imaging, demonstrating clear operational and equity impacts with strong clinician involvement and replicability for other multi-site pediatric programs. [Read More…](https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/arkansas-childrens-uses-telemedicine-provide-much-needed-cardiac-mris-and-cts) --- ## **************PAHO promotes digital innovation to improve vaccination recordkeeping in communities with limited connectivity************** The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), with Peru’s Ministry of Health, piloted “Vacuna Offline”, a WHO-SMART-guidelines-based app for recording immunizations in Amazonian border regions (Amazonas, Madre de Dios, Loreto) with poor connectivity. Health workers record vaccinations at point-of-care offline; data automatically syncs to national systems when connectivity returns, improving timeliness and reliability of registries. A comparative evaluation against paper processes found a 30% reduction in time spent on data entry, freeing staff for patient care and improving data traceability and coverage tracking. By aligning to WHO SMART interoperability standards, the tool advances data governance and portability and is positioned as a regional digital public good for scale to other low-connectivity settings. Clinicians and vaccinators are core users; lessons learned include the need for offline-first UX, field training, and integration with national immunization systems. Backed by PAHO and German Development Cooperation, the pilot carries system-level relevance and clear operational outcomes with a path to replication across the Americas. [Read More…](https://www.paho.org/en/news/5-11-2025-paho-promotes-digital-innovation-improve-vaccination-recordkeeping-communities) --- ## ********EY US-KLAS healthcare cybersecurity survey reveals cyber capability enablement a top business priority******** A survey of 100 U.S. healthcare executives responsible for cybersecurity, conducted by EY US and KLAS Research, provides evidence that organizations are fundamentally shifting their strategy following severe operational disruptions. The data reveals that robust cybersecurity is now being treated as a core business enabler, essential for supporting clinical care and innovation. This strategic pivot is a direct response to tangible consequences experienced in the last two years, with 60% of organizations reporting moderate to severe operational disruptions and 59% experiencing clinical impacts, including delayed procedures and treatments, as a result of cyber incidents. Financially, 72% reported a moderate to severe financial impact. In practice, this has translated into specific investment priorities, with 68% of executives identifying identity and access management as a top investment area for the coming year to safeguard data and system access. The report underscores a key lesson learned industry-wide: proactive cybersecurity is no longer just an IT compliance issue but is integral to patient safety and operational resilience. This approach is seen as a prerequisite for the safe adoption of other advanced technologies, such as AI and connected health platforms. The next steps for organizations involve embedding cybersecurity considerations into the early stages of all digital transformation and technology procurement projects [Read More…](https://www.ey.com/en_us/newsroom/2025/11/ey-us-klas-healthcare-cybersecurity-survey-reveals-cyber-capability-enablement-a-top-business-priority) --- ## ********HLTH 2025 Conference: Cleveland Clinic Reports 40% Reduction in Unused OR Time Through AI Virtual Command Center, Tampa General Hospital Adopts Microsoft DAX Copilot******** Fierce Healthcare reported on key AI implementations discussed at the HLTH 2025 conference in Las Vegas, highlighting practical deployments focused on efficiency, cost reduction, and clinician burden relief. Cleveland Clinic partnered with Palantir to develop a virtual command center for optimizing patient flow, staffing, and resource allocation using the Foundry AI platform. Implementation results showed a 40% reduction in unused operating room time, and the virtual command center enabled transfer of approximately 30 additional patients to the main campus weekly, representing a 7% increase in capacity utilization. This demonstrates improved operational efficiency and patient throughput through AI-driven resource optimization. Tampa General Hospital (TGH), expanding its geographic footprint, adopted Microsoft’s DAX Copilot as an early implementation to streamline clinical documentation. Scott Arnold, EVP and Chief Digital and Innovation Officer at TGH, reported that ROI is being realized through reduced turnover, attrition, and recruiting costs rather than increased visit volume, as clinicians complete documentation faster. HCA Healthcare collaborated with Google Cloud to develop an AI-powered, nurse-designed handoff tool ensuring accurate, consistent communication between care teams. The conference emphasized healthcare’s evolution toward “continuous intelligence powered by AI and advanced analytics woven into everyday workflows,” with executives noting that AI-ready data must be organized, contextualized, and actionable at the point of care. Bob Watson, CEO of Health Gorilla (a designated QHIN under TEFCA), emphasized that delivering raw information alone isn’t sufficient—data must be intelligently structured to drive faster decisions and better coordination. [Read More…](https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/key-trends-and-executive-takeaways-hlth-2025) --- ## ****DeepScribe’s oncology ambient AI set to document 3.1 million cancer-care visits annually**** Community oncology sites deploying DeepScribe’s oncology-specific ambient AI (integrated with Flatiron Health’s OncoEMR) capture conversations, draft structured notes and propose ICD-10 diagnoses for clinician review/sign-off. Vendor-reported adoption has expanded, with a projection to document >3.1 million cancer-care visits in the coming year. Peer-reviewed evidence cited alongside the rollout (Journal of Clinical Pathways, Oct 2025) analyzed ≈11,000 AI-assisted encounters and found 16% more diagnoses per visit, higher capture of comorbidities (61% vs 50%) and social determinants (16% vs 11%), and more fully specified ICD-10 codes (45% vs 37%) compared with manual documentation. Clinicians reported “mental offloading” and usability benefits, though note-closure time did not dramatically change, and accuracy relied on clinician validation prior to finalization. The implementation shows tangible workflow and coding-quality impacts with direct clinician oversight; limitations include vendor affiliation and primarily operational (not clinical-outcome) endpoints. Next steps involve continued scale across Flatiron-connected oncology practices and further independent validation of clinical impacts. [Read More…](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/deepscribes-oncology-momentum-accelerates-ambient-ai-set-to-capture-3-1-million-cancer-care-visits-annually-302610937.html) --- The Global Digi-Health Monitor is our weekly published newsletter featuring curated updates on the latest developments in digital health. With a focus on innovation and relevance, it brings together key news across topics such as AI in healthcare, wearables, telemedicine, cybersecurity, and more. Our process is designed to be both scalable and selective. A broad network of over 250 global sources is continuously screened using six different AI tools. These tools help surface relevant content, which is then passed through a multi-step filtering and evaluation process that emphasizes innovation and impact. In the final stage, selected articles are reviewed and curated by our team before being published. The result is a dynamic, well-structured view of what truly matters in the digital health ecosystem. 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