The fear that AI will hollow out healthcare cybersecurity careers is not one Anahi Santiago shares — but she recently got a close-up look at how the anxiety is landing on the people around her. Ms. Santiago’s executive assistant, who…

Margaret Lozovatsky, MD, chief digital information officer at Dayton, Ohio-based Premier Health, has watched her own job description change out from under her. “Initially, the role of the CMIO or the CNIO was to be at-the-elbow support. Right, we stood…

Amazon is hiring healthcare AI solutions architects, an applied scientist, engineering managers focused on healthcare cybersecurity, and a product manager — the kinds of roles hospital and health system CIOs and chief digital officers are competing for as they build…

Hospital margins have narrowed considerably since the pandemic, but cybersecurity budgets have kept climbing — and health system IT leaders say they are now facing sharper questions from their CFOs about why. The tension is already showing up in the…

Nearly half of respondents asked about AI across 13 countries said people without formal medical training who know how to use AI could perform at least one health-related task as well as or better than a trained healthcare professional, according…

Oracle Health spent the first half of 2026 accelerating its push to remake healthcare technology through AI, expanding its footprint across the Department of Veterans Affairs and introducing new interoperability tools, even as the company cut hundreds of jobs tied…

Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., reintroduced legislation that would establish minimum federal cybersecurity standards for healthcare organizations and provide $1.3 billion to help hospitals strengthen their defenses. The senators reintroduced the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act,…

Clara Lin, MD, vice president and chief medical information officer at Seattle Children’s, doesn’t have a shortage of AI tools to consider. She has the opposite problem. “Epic is coming out with like 100, 200, 300 … just so many…

“I’m a poor career planner,” Geoff Patterson said — not exactly the sentence you’d expect from an executive at one of the nation’s largest health systems. Mr. Patterson, senior vice president and chief digital and information officer of Detroit-based Henry…

The pipeline of AI tools seeking a foothold inside health systems has never been longer or faster-moving. For CIOs and CMIOs, the hardest question is no longer whether to pilot new technology, but how to know when a pilot has…