Healthcare leaders are hearing a familiar promise: AI will improve efficiency, reduce burden, and accelerate decision-making. However, across health systems, there’s a growing disconnect between expectation and reality. Many organizations are investing in AI and seeing only modest returns. The reason is simple: most are applying AI to systems that were never designed for it. As highlighted in a recent article in Harvard Business Review, early factories made a similar mistake

Chicago, IL - August 4th, 2026] - ASCEND Cardiovascular, a leader in cardiovascular structured reporting and workflow solutions, and Epsilon Imaging, a leading provider of vendor-neutral advanced echocardiography analysis software, today announced a strategic non-exclusive partnership. The partnership is designed to deliver an integrated, "best-of-breed" solution for clinical echo analysis, reading and reporting. By natively connecting ASCEND’s enterprise structured reporting