Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Agentic AI is taking root across health systems faster than the governance structures built to contain it. The technology questions, for the most part, are settled. What remains unresolved is whether the people responsible for operations understand they are now…

Anthropic pulled its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 artificial intelligence models for all customers on June 12 after the U.S. government issued an export control directive suspending foreign nationals’ access to the models, citing national security authorities. The directive bars…

Rural healthcare leaders are turning resource limits into a sharper lens for technology investment. As federal initiatives like the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program infuse rural health systems with new capital, the organizations seeing the most impact are not…

Clinical documentation integrity programs sit at the intersection of patient care, quality reporting and revenue capture  but too many remain siloed and disconnected from the workflows around them. During a recent webinar hosted by Becker’s Healthcare and Solventum, Dan Bray,…

For most patients, the steady advance of healthcare interoperability has been an unambiguous good. A medical record that arrives before the patient means faster, better-informed care in the emergency department or specialist’s office. For a smaller group of patients, that…

Most health AI tools in use today fall outside the oversight framework patients and executives might expect, according to a Bipartisan Policy Center report. Here are five notes from the report, which maps which agencies oversee health AI, as discussed…

The pressure to adopt AI does not wait for an org chart. Many hospitals and health systems have no data science group and no dedicated AI team, yet they are deploying the same ambient documentation, automation and clinical tools as…

Traverse City, Mich.-based Munson Medical Center nurses have ratified a new three-year labor contract that includes AI guardrails. The provisions establish a contractual definition of AI and create a formal channel for nurses to flag concerns about new technology deployments.…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has established a new Office of Health Technology and Products to oversee healthcare technology modernization, digital products and platform transformation across the agency’s programs. The organizational change was approved by HHS Secretary Robert…

The FBI opened a 22,000-square-foot simulated town on its Redstone Arsenal campus in Huntsville, Ala., that includes a fully wired mock hospital agents use to train for ransomware response and other cyber investigations. The Kinetic Cyber Range, operated by the…