Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, is seeking information from New York City officials about a February cybersecurity incident that affected NYC Health + Hospitals and potentially exposed sensitive patient data. In…

AI is no longer a pilot program at most U.S. health systems — it’s infrastructure. Enterprise deals inked in 2026 span clinical documentation, radiology triage, sepsis detection, capacity management and decision support, with health systems moving from cautious experimentation to…

Two of the country’s largest health systems reached new milestones in their Epic EHR rollouts, reflecting the continued push by major systems to consolidate sprawling technology portfolios onto a single platform. Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health announced June 2 that 65% of…

Jayson Laban stepped into the vice president and CIO role at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston on May 1 with a clear vision for the organization’s technology strategy. “My vision is that we are the blueprint for…

Scaling AI across a health system demands governance structures, cultural alignment and a willingness to redesign workflows from the ground up. During a Becker’s Healthcare webinar sponsored by Nabla, two leaders from UC San Diego Health shared how they have…

While workforce safety, capacity constraints, AI strategy and equitable care delivery remain top priorities across healthcare, some organizations are moving faster than others. Their advantage isn’t unlimited resources or ideal conditions, it’s a disciplined approach to execution, grounded in cross-functional…

A Michigan federal judge has blocked Munson Healthcare’s attempt to transfer two class-action data breach lawsuits to Missouri, where dozens of similar cases against Oracle Health are consolidated. Chief Judge Hala Jarbou of the Western District of Michigan denied Munson’s…

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals has completed more than 20,000 robotic surgeries since launching its program in 2016, with the health system now performing more than 5,000 procedures annually across 19 da Vinci systems at 10 sites of…

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health and Royal Philips announced a seven-year strategic alliance on June 4 that brings advanced imaging and diagnostics technology to patients across central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland and establishes a joint research and innovation collaboration. The deal…

Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health has deployed an AI tool to identify patients eligible for its Heal at Home program in real time, replacing a manual chart review process that required clinicians to sort through more than 160…