HITshow Daily: September 18, 2025 (Thursday)

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 RomeroArdent 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 StokesAscension 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 CollierGarmin 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 ShahUniversity 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 CrossVirtual 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. 🎧 Subscribe here or wherever you listen to podcasts, and if you like our show, please follow us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/hit.show. HITshow is made possible by: Altera Digital Health and Kimmchi