Recent News

Providence's inpatient telemedicine programs pack a powerful punch

9/16/2024

Dr. Eve Cunningham discusses how Providence's inpatient telemedicine programs are addressing critical constraints and boosting patient outcomes.

Providence expands digital assistant to 7,000-plus providers

Dr. Jessica Schlicher shares insights on how MedPearl delivers quick, actionable medical insights, enhancing both patient care and operational efficiency.

How are we effectively using AI to reduce clinician burnout?

9/9/2024

Dr. Eve Cunningham discusses how AI-enhanced technology, including our MedPearl platform, enhances clinical decision-making and reduce the cognitive load on clinicians.

Are Healthcare Leaders Getting Their AI Priorities Straight?

9/8/2024

Dr. Eve Cunningham shares insights on how healthcare leaders can navigate the challenges and seize the opportunities presented by the evolving AI landscape.

Is the Boom of Digital Health Really Booming?

9/1/2024

Dr. Jessica Schlicher discusses the practical applications and limitations of digital health technologies, emphasizing the importance of maintaining a human connection in healthcare.

How Providence, Ochsner, Hartford Healthcare weigh AI investments

8/30/2024

Providence is too large to adopt many AI solutions from small vendors so we have developed our own AI-enabled tools, including MedPearl, an EHR-integrated digital assistant.

Implementation of Innovations to Address Clinician Burnout

8/20/2024

Discover how Providence is leveraging technology to reduce clinical burdens in healthcare settings.

A Physician-Created Platform to Speed Clinical Decision-Making and Referral Workflow

8/20/2024

Providence developed MedPearl, a product to improve accuracy of decision-making and increase appropriate primary-to-specialty care referrals while improving clinician competence and productivity.

HIMSS Member Spotlight: Eve Cunningham, MD, MBA, GVP, Chief of Virtual Care and Digital Health at Providence

7/28/2024

Dr. Cunningham shares insights on the evolving role of AI and ML in healthcare and advocates for a balanced approach to integrating AI, ensuring safety, security, and privacy of patient data.

Providence developing AI tools designed to reduce clinician burnout

8/15/2024

Dr. Eve Cunningham discusses her upcoming session at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum about the use of AI in healthcare.

AI in Healthcare with Eve Cunningham

8/15/2024

Eve Cunningham shares her insights on how Generative AI is revolutionizing healthcare, and the impact it has on patient care and outcomes.

One Step Forward in Democratizing Healthcare

8/5/2024

Dr. Jessica Schlicher, Chief Medical Officer of Virtual Care and Digital Health at Providence discusses how MedPearl is transforming the referral process to specialists, making it more efficient.

Dr. Eve Cunningham Appointed as Alternate to the FDA Digital Health Advisory Committee

8/1/2024

Eve Cunningham has been selected as an alternate in the distinguished pool of non-voting industry representatives for the Digital Health Advisory Committee.

46 health IT leaders predict the future of healthcare delivery

7/16/2024

We will create a world where health disparities due to inequities in healthcare access will decrease. That's the future we're working to build with MedPearl at Providence.

297+ telehealth companies to know | 2024

7/16/2024

Providence Virtual Care and Digital Health (VCDH) was honored for a second year in the 2024 Becker's telehealth companies to know list.

Why Specialists Could Be Out of a Job!

7/16/2024

Eve Cunningham discusses the challenges of information overload in healthcare, the inefficiencies of the electronic health record system, and how MedPearl is revolutionizing the referral process.

What’s Next in Virtual Care and RPM?

7/16/2024

Eve Cunningham discusses the evolving landscape of healthcare through innovations in virtual care and remote patient monitoring (RPM) and how these innovations can help with clinician shortages.

VCDH launches TeleInfectious Disease within Providence

7/8/2024

Providence Virtual Care and Digital Health (VCDH) is excited to announce the launch of TeleInfectious Disease (TeleID) services.

Providence’s Dr. Eve Cunningham discusses technology and patient care

6/24/2024

Discover the transformative power of AI in healthcare with Dr. Eve Cunningham's MedPearl, a digital assistant that streamlines clinical decision-making.

Q&A with Dr. Eve Cunningham of Providence: “Let’s Talk about the Problems We’re Trying to Solve.”

6/17/2024

Dr. Eve Cunningham discusses the importance of effective change management and how her team at Providence are transforming healthcare through technology and innovation.

The Beat: Dr. Eve Cunningham, Providence

6/3/2024

Dr. Eve Cunningham, Chief of Virtual Care and Digital Health discusses Providence's mission to serve vulnerable communities and how they've continually innovated digitally.

Telehealth Is Far From Dead, Says Providence’s Virtual Care Chief

5/14/2024

Eve Cunningham of Providence states telehealth is not dead, but it needs to be integrated into the whole care delivery system and tailored to the specific needs of each patient population.

Providence's Eve Cunningham is Engaging clinical champions to help manage workflow changes

5/5/2024

Dr. Eve Cunningham shares how internal sponsors encouraging clinicians to adopt virtual care and RPM reduced admissions and total cost of care.

At Providence, RPM is improving patient health and reducing provider workload

4/23/2024

Explore the journey of Providence's RPM program through this interview with Dr. Eve Cunningham, from the strategic implementation to the remarkable outcomes of remote patient monitoring.

Health Subcommittee Hearing: Legislative Proposals to Support Patient Access to Telehealth Services

4/9/2024

Dr. Eve Cunningham of Providence provided testimony to the health subcommittee on behalf of the health system advocating for continued reimbursement of telehealth services.

American Academy of Neurology's Capitol Hill Report

4/22/2024

In a recent hearing on telehealth services, Dr. Eve Cunningham highlighted the huge opportunities for virtual care deployment in neurology and other cognitive-focused specialties.

3 health system leaders testify before Congress on telehealth extension

4/14/2024

Dr. Eve Cunningham of Providence, testified before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, stating that telehealth has become a core function of healthcare delivery.

Health systems urge Congress to lay down a permanent road map for telehealth services as clock ticks on December deadline

4/10/2024

Eve Cunningham at Providence testified before Congress on the importance of permanent Medicare coverage for telehealth services.

Lawmakers mull telehealth quality, reimbursement as extension deadline looms

4/10/2024

Eve Cunningham of Providence testified that patients expect the telehealth model of care now, and providers need reassurance that reimbursement will be stable.

US Legislators Talk Telehealth Cost, Quality As Cutoff Nears

4/14/2024

In an April 10 Congressional hearing, Dr. Eve Cunningham emphasized that providing telehealth does not mean overhead costs go away and that it takes resources to manage a virtual care program.

What the House subcommittee hearing tells us about telehealth’s future

4/11/2024

Dr. Eve Cunningham of Providence, testified before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, stating that telehealth has become an integrated part of the care delivery system.

House Members Struggle to Craft Road Map for Future of Telehealth

4/10/2024

Eve Cunningham of Providence, testified before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, stating that telehealth has become an integrated part of the care delivery system.

HIMSS Highlights - Business of Primary Care

4/2/2024

In this episode of The Business of Primary care podcast, hear Eve Cunningham MD MBA discuss the game changing technology feature called contextualization in MedPearl.

HIMSS '24: Health System Innovation Leaders

3/27/2024

In this episode recorded at HIMSS 2024, Andy Chu and Dr. Eve Cunningham, two prominent health system innovation leaders from Providence discuss creating tomorrow's health.

Why Providence is leaning into remote patient monitoring

3/25/2024

Providence is leaning heavily into remote patient monitoring for its at-home care strategy. Dr. Cunningham said the "secret sauce" of Providence's program is it doesn't add to provider burnout.

How Providence measures AI ROI

3/20/2024

Providence has developed several AI tools including MedPearl which offers guidance to primary care providers regarding referral destinations for patients requiring specialty care.

4 Near-Term AI Predictions from ViVE

3/19/2024

Prediction for AI in healthcare: Clinicians will invite an AI co-pilot into their decision-making, including MedPearl founded by Eve Cunningham, Chief of Virtual Care and Digital Health.

HIMSS24: AI, cybersecurity is industry focal point

3/19/2024

The HIMSS annual conference in Orlando, Florida, presented high-level discussions on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and featured are insights from Eve Cunningham, Chief of VCDH at Providence.

AI: It’s Complicated, But We’re Doing It

3/19/2024

What’s been made clear in at the AI and Healthcare Preconference Forum at HIMSS24 is this: AI (artificial intelligence) is complicated. Toyin Falola, AVP of Clinical Product Strategy for VCDH.

Developing and Scaling a Clinical Generative AI Product Across Providence

3/19/2024

Jessica Schlicher, Chief Medical Officer of Virtual Care and Digital Health, describes the challenge and goals of scaling a clinical generative AI product, MedPearl, across Providence.

Implementing AI in a robust health system

2/12/2024

Dr. Eve Cunningham, chief of virtual care and digital health at Providence, explains how the health system is implementing AI, vetting companies in the space to ensure security and facing challenges i

ViVE 2024 Real World Strategies in Leading Human Centered Digital Health Transformation

2/25/2024

In the luncheon panel at Vive 2024 "Real World Strategies in Leading Human Centered Digital Health Transformation" listen to panelists including Dr. Eve Cunningham.

Extending Care Through AI-Driven Accurate & Appropriate Specialty Referrals

1/25/2024

Dr. Eve Cunningham, Chief of Virtual Care & Digital Health at Providence discusses "Extending Care Through AI-Driven Accurate & Appropriate Specialty Referrals."

How to Use AI to Improve Patient Referrals

1/17/2024

Providence health system has developed an artificial intelligence tool to help physicians manage patient referrals more effectively and efficiently: MedPearl.

Washington doctors, patients hope at-home care will continue

1/28/2024

Four hospitals in Washington have been treating patients at home since 2020, including Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, and has served over 250 patients.

HIMSS Forum Illuminates AI Progress: Focus on Operational Efficiency and Five Other Takeaways

1/10/2024

Eve Cunningham, Chief of Virtual Care and Digital Health, Providence, suggests tips related to end user adoption of AI or ML, by engaging end users from the start.

AI scaling and sustainability – tips for success

1/3/2024

Eve Cunningham of Providence offered a perspective on their artificial intelligence journeys at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum.

Dr. Eve Cunningham wins the HIMSS-AMDIS Physician Executive Leader Award

2/1/2024

Congratulations Eve Cunningham, MD, MBA, GVP and chief of virtual care and digital health, for winning the 2024 HIMSS-AMDIS Physician Executive Changemaker Award.

Navigating the path to AI at scale

11/28/2023

Dr. Eve Cunningham, an expert in applied technologies and care transformation talks effective approaches to scaling AI systems for optimal value.

Weaving Ambient Intelligence into the Fabric of Care Delivery: Curating Wisdom

10/20/2023

Dr. Eve Cunningham discusses Providence's groundbreaking work in healthcare innovation and leading the way in integrating Ambient Intelligence, AI, and LLMs.