Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Cleveland-based University Hospitals has no estimated timeline for restoring its IT systems, nearly two weeks after detecting unusual activity on its servers Oct. 22. In a Nov. 2 update on its website, the health system said it is working to…

Hospitals have long run on things nobody wrote down. A patient who has not sat up since breakfast, an incision started 20 minutes late, or an infusion chair no nurse has approached in most of an hour. These moments shape…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has launched an AI-enabled clinical decision support tool that integrates into electronic health records to help clinicians access medical information and guidance when making patient care decisions. The solution, developed by Mayo Clinic Platform, is available…

Amazon has spent years trying to break into healthcare, and while some bets have fizzled, the company’s footprint in the industry is still expanding.  Amazon has pursued that goal through a mix of acquisitions, launches and experiments, not all of…

As hospitals and health systems expand AI, technology leaders are encountering costs that extend beyond purchasing and implementing the tools, from unpredictable usage fees to the infrastructure and workforce needed to keep them running. Healthcare executives have told Becker’s that…

For hospitals and health systems, the cost of an EHR extends well beyond implementation. Leaders at two health systems told Becker’s their EHR costs keep climbing, but they split on whether that spending should be shielded when budgets tighten. Sinai…

A handful of hospitals and health systems are rolling out Oracle Health’s EHR platform in 2026, even as the vendor works to reverse a string of net hospital losses since acquiring Cerner in 2022. Oracle Health held 21.9% of the…

Renton, Wash.-based Providence is owed $1 billion by Medicare Advantage plans. About $600 million of it is from this year alone, according to President and CEO Erik Wexler, and he wants Congress to make payers pay faster. Mr. Wexler is…

Picture a college student sitting alone late at night, phone in hand, typing a few lines into an anonymous peer-support forum. The message may reflect nothing more than a hard week, or it may be the first time this student…

Athenahealth on Nov. 2 launched athenaPatient MCP, a new server that gives patients a way to connect their official health data directly to Anthropic’s Claude. The tool runs on the Model Context Protocol, which provides secure connection points that let…