Hospital executives have had little room to breathe when it comes to big investments. Median hospital operating margins were still hovering near 2% through early 2026, squeezed by rising expenses, an eroding payer mix and softening patient volumes, and finance…

From deciphering complex medical jargon to understanding the array of treatment options, patients often feel overwhelmed even before stepping into a physician’s office. But could artificial intelligence make the entire experience less daunting and even more collaborative? Yes, it’s possible.…

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,…

Minneapolis-based Children’s Minnesota is preparing for an Oct. 3 Epic go-live, but the decision behind the implementation was more than a decade in the making. The health system ran Oracle Health in its hospitals and eClinicalWorks in affiliated ambulatory clinics…

More than 90% of health systems have deployed third-party AI solutions, but only 44% have a dedicated platform for testing those tools before rollout, according to a new report from the Center for Connected Medicine at UPMC and KLAS Research.…

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health expects its quarterly Epic upgrades to become faster and less resource-intensive as a result of the health system’s newly completed migration to Amazon Web Services. “Our future Epic upgrades, which we go through every quarter, will…

Boston Children’s Hospital is among roughly a dozen organizations publicly named by security researcher Vangelis Stykas as impacted by a large-scale North Korean hacking operation, Wired report Aug. 5. The hospital disputes that its own systems were breached, saying the…

Health systems, insurers and AI companies are facing a wave of litigation in 2026 over how artificial intelligence is used to make or influence decisions about patient care, coverage and billing.  Here are three cases testing where accountability lands when…

As hospitals and health systems further embed AI into healthcare delivery, they are increasingly appointing chief AI officers or equivalent senior executives with dedicated responsibility for AI governance, implementation and oversight. The growing presence of these roles reflects the industry’s…

The Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division expanded its Northeast Health Care Fraud Strike Force into Philadelphia and charged 19 defendants in alleged Medicaid home health aide fraud schemes. The expansion pairs the Fraud Division’s Health Care Fraud Section with…