Health system IT departments saw a wave of outsourcing, targeted layoffs, leadership churn and a competing push toward retention in 2026, even as surveys show the teams left behind are stretched thin and struggling to fill the roles they need…
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Two-thirds of hospital IT teams are strained or in constant “firefighting” mode, according to a new report — and even fully staffed departments aren’t immune. The Aug. 18 report from networking-as-a-service provider Nile surveyed more than 300 IT leaders, C-suite…
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has raised the ceiling on its Oracle Health EHR contract to $26.9 billion, according to an award notice published Aug. 19 on SAM.gov. The VA awarded the modification, valued at $16.9 billion, on Aug.…
Hackensack Meridian Health’s path to becoming the first health network in the nation to earn The Joint Commission’s Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare Certification began years before the accrediting organization launched the program. The health system announced the certification…
Dartmouth Health has begun discussions to sunset its Tele-ICU and Tele-ED telehealth services, affecting 13 hospitals in New Hampshire and Vermont, citing unsustainable costs without external funding support. Like other regional and national health systems, Dartmouth Health said it faces…
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Healthcare organizations have invested heavily in digital transformation, yet clinicians and patients still encounter fragmented experiences every day. The problem is rarely a lack of technology. More often, it is that individual technologies were selected to solve individual problems without sufficient consideration…
The Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network has executed three grant agreements worth more than $50 million with the state to fund rural hospital technology, disease prevention and workforce initiatives. ICAHN signed the agreements with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and…
Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy reported a 22% reduction in flowsheet documentation time per shift after rolling out Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot AI assistant to nurses, according to a Microsoft customer story published Aug. 14. Mercy piloted the ambient AI tool in a…
Wolters Kluwer Health is working with Epic to give eligible Epic customers in the U.S. turnkey access to a bundled set of drug information and patient education content delivered inside their EHR workflows, the company announced July 30. The Waltham,…
The University of Houston has established the Institute for Digital Healthcare Transformation, a cross-campus effort to push emerging technology into clinical use. The institute operates under UH Health, the university’s academic health enterprise, and draws on expertise from engineering, medicine,…