Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Epic used its developer conference to open more of its platform to outside AI and apps, and to remind those developers that the traffic they generate lands on health systems’ infrastructure. The second annual Open@Epic ran Oct. 21-22 at the…

Microsoft’s AI diagnostic system correctly diagnosed 83.2% of complex New England Journal of Medicine cases, compared with 36.1% for generalist physicians using search and reference tools, according to a study published Oct. 22 in Science. Without those tools, physicians averaged…

Secaucus, N.J.-based Quest Diagnostics is investigating a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to a system used by certain clients to order laboratory tests and retrieve results. The company learned of the incident Oct. 21 and believes an unauthorized party accessed…

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health is expanding its use of artificial intelligence and digital health tools, reporting that more than 6,000 clinicians have used ambient AI to draft more than 5 million clinical notes. The health system detailed its progress in…

Ask health system technology leaders what AI can’t do, and the list keeps getting shorter. Ask what they won’t let it do, and the answers come back to two things: judgment calls and the human work of getting people to…

Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health has restored access to its MyChart patient portal and Find a Doctor search tool following a systemwide internet outage, though some services remain unavailable. According to an update on the health system’s website, patients can…

HHS plans to award Anthropic a sole-source contract to keep its workforce on the company’s Claude AI tools without an open competition. The agency posted a notice of intent Oct. 19 on SAM.gov for a “limited continuity of services award.”…

Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner has spent nearly five decades building the company by declining to do many of the things software companies are expected to do. The firm has never gone public, never taken venture capital or private…

Oracle Health is expanding its reach beyond EHRs, introducing AI tools for clinical care, revenue cycle management and hospital operations while pursuing new partnerships across healthcare and life sciences. The company’s efforts include AI-powered clinical assistants, new financial management capabilities…

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital is fine-tuning an Nvidia AI model to screen large language model traffic against its own risk and privacy standards, adding a locally run compliance layer as the health system expands its use of AI. Palantir Technologies…