At a number of health systems, the executive in charge of IT no longer carries the CIO title. Some organizations have elevated their CIO into a broader digital or technology role or split the job between two leaders. The most…
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Agents and AI are on every vendor’s banner these days, Availity’s Sean Barrett observed — yet getting payer data into the workflows those agents run remains the hard part. During a featured session sponsored by Availity at Becker’s 11th Annual…
As technology works its way into nearly every corner of hospital operations, health system CIOs are confronting a practical question: If an initiative touches technology, does IT have to own it? Sheri Strobel, CIO of Temple Terrace, Fla.-based Chapters Health…
A bipartisan group of 32 House members is urging CMS to reconsider its proposed remote patient monitoring restrictions in the 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The Oct. 2 letter to CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, was led by Reps. David…
Leadership changes reported by Becker’s in 2026 show some health systems adding digital oversight, data analytics and hospital administration to CIO portfolios, while one search explicitly assigns AI governance to the next IT leader. The changes take different forms. Some…
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Montage Health and Southwest General began with modest patient access workflows: scheduling, registration and appointment reminders. As the results accumulated, the challenge shifted from demonstrating whether automation worked to deciding what to build next and how to scale without creating…
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health is pivoting from urgent care to virtual care in South Carolina, The Post and Courier. Novant is selling 36 of its South Carolina urgent care centers to Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health. The deal is expected to…
Amazon Web Services awarded more than $1.8 million in cash and cloud computing credits to 11 organizations, including five children’s hospitals, through its 2026 AWS Imagine Grant Children’s Health Innovation Award, the company said Oct. 5. Recipients also get technical…
Health system technology leaders are heading into 2027 focused less on adding more technology and more on proving it can meaningfully change how healthcare works. Three health system IT leaders who spoke with Becker’s described different priorities for 2027, but…
Google says its new frontier AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, uncovered a critical vulnerability in healthcare software used by hospitals worldwide that put sensitive personal information at risk. Google-owned cybersecurity company Wiz found the flaw through its Scan for Good…