Health IT news and digital transformation trends

In healthcare, a cyberattack is a patient safety crisis as well as an IT problem. As the frequency and sophistication of cyber threats continue to escalate, the organizations tasked with protecting hospitals and health systems have never been more critical. …

Charta Health, an AI-powered chart review platform, has joined the Athenahealth marketplace. The San Francisco-based company’s platform integrates directly with Athenahealth’s EHR to automate pre-billing chart audits across every patient encounter. Charta said its technology increases revenue by an average…

DP Harris, PhD, Loma Linda University Health’s new senior vice president of enterprise IT and chief digital and information officer, says AI proficiency is no longer optional for IT professionals. Dr. Harris, who oversees more than 400 IT professionals and…

AMN Healthcare’s Language Services has acquired Jaide Health, an AI-enabled medical interpretation and translation platform designed to support limited English proficiency patients. Dallas-based AMN said the deal extends its language access capabilities beyond clinical interactions — where credentialed human interpreters…

Coral Gables-based Baptist Health South Florida will partner with Amazon One Medical to connect primary and specialty care across the region, effective Aug. 1. Under the agreement, patients of One Medical — Amazon’s hybrid in-person and virtual primary care company,…

A growing number of health systems are beginning to quantify returns on their AI investments, with some reporting more than $100 million in annual value. Boston Children’s Hospital has reclaimed about 60,000 hours from AI-enabled workflows since partnering with OpenAI…

Health systems have no shortage of successful AI pilots. Ambient documentation, revenue cycle automation, clinical decision support — individual use cases have delivered real results in individual departments. But translating those wins into organization-wide results has proven far more difficult.…

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, frontier AI models the company says accelerated parts of its internal drug design work roughly tenfold, on June 9. The two models share the same underlying system — a new “Mythos-class”…

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care piloted an in-house AI agent that generates hospital discharge summaries, finding it reduced physician burnout. Researchers at Stanford (Calif.) Medicine built the tool, calling it MedAgentBrief, and deployed it at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood…

The American Hospital Association is positioning technology — from EHRs to predictive analytics — as a central lever in hospitals’ push to lower healthcare costs. AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack wrote in a June 5 column that EHRs and…