Health IT news and digital transformation trends

U.S. employers announced 97,006 job cuts in May, a 16% increase from April and the highest total for the month since 2020, as AI continued to drive workforce reductions across industries, according to a June 4 report from Challenger, Gray…

Abridge, the AI medical documentation startup, is hiring engineers to deepen its EHR integrations with Epic, Oracle Health (formerly Cerner) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ VistA system, as well as a product lead to expand into revenue cycle…

Judy Faulkner, founder and CEO of Epic, has earned a top spot on Forbes’ annual list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women, coming in at No. 3 with an estimated net worth of $9.6 billion. Forbes released the list June 3.…

Anthropic called for the world to build the tools needed to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development, arguing in a new report that the technology’s accelerating ability to improve itself is outpacing the safeguards meant to govern it. The…

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health hopes its hospital-at-home success will encourage more private payers to cover the care model and federal lawmakers to make it a long-term solution. Here are five things to know from a June 2 news release: 1.…

Health system leaders told Becker’s they’re encouraged by AI developer Anthropic opening up its Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative to healthcare, though the participant list remains largely unnamed. The company launched the project in April after opting not to publicly release…

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has rolled out an AI-powered virtual assistant, Aubrey. The assistant is designed to guide patients through the surgical process, according to a June 4 news release. Once a procedure is scheduled, eligible patients can receive text…

The future of health IT is being shaped by women who are completing the essential work of making healthcare smarter, faster and more effective. They are untangling administrative complexity, eliminating inefficiencies, standardizing workflows and implementing innovative measures that impact entire…

Epic Systems and four health systems have voluntarily dismissed their claims against SelfRx, doing business as Myself.Health, in a case that has put national patient data interoperability frameworks under scrutiny since January. The June 3 filing, submitted in the U.S.…

During a recent Becker’s Healthcare webinar hosted by Martti, an Equiti Solution, Andy Schwieter, director of language access services at Cincinnati Children’s, made the case that treating it as infrastructure, not an obligation, is what separates organizations that improve from…