Health IT news and digital transformation trends

A coalition of state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI that includes scrutiny of how the company handles consumer health data, according to a subpoena viewed by The Wall Street Journal. New York Attorney General Letitia James served…

Researchers at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham have developed BRIDGE, a multilingual benchmark that found large language models perform far better on medical licensing exams than actual patient-care tasks. The benchmark evaluates how well LLMs understand clinical text — including…

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has led a coalition of 19 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief opposing a Justice Department effort to obtain personal health information from adolescents who received gender-affirming care at Stanford Children’s Hospital in Palo…

Hattiesburg, Miss.-based Forrest Health has deployed an AI tool embedded in its Epic EHR that flagged more than 173 incidental lung nodules in its first six weeks, connecting rural patients to follow-up care. The Incidental Lung Nodule AI and Navigator…

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health has cut coder chart review time by 20% after deploying Epic’s AI Professional Billing Coding Assistant, generating an estimated $924,000 in annual labor savings. The tool surfaces suggested codes from clinical documentation, allowing the health system’s…

One Medical has continually expanded its network of health system partnerships in the three-plus years since Amazon closed its $3.9 billion acquisition of the hybrid primary care company in 2023 — even as the lineup of partners has shifted. Amazon…

As healthcare organizations navigate rapid technological change, rural hospitals continue to face unique challenges that often go overlooked, Nitin Agarwal, CIO of Wayne Memorial Hospital in Honesdale, Pa., told Becker’s. “Rural organizations are doing a heck of a lot more…

Anthropic and Trump administration officials are working to resolve a dispute that led the administration to restrict access to the AI company’s newest models, The Wall Street Journal reported June 15. The Journal reported discussions continued June 15 between Anthropic…

General-purpose large language models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic outperformed specialized clinical AI tools across every medical benchmark in a study published in Nature Medicine. Researchers tested OpenEvidence and Wolters Kluwer’s UpToDate Expert AI against GPT-5.2, Gemini 3.1 Pro and…

Epic Staffing Group has agreed to rebrand under a new name to resolve a federal trademark lawsuit brought by EHR vendor Epic. Epic (aka Epic Systems) sued the healthcare and life sciences staffing firm in 2024, alleging trademark infringement, false…