Health IT news and digital transformation trends

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health and Royal Philips have entered a seven-year strategic alliance covering advanced imaging technology, AI-enabled care and a joint research and co-development agreement across WellSpan’s 12 hospitals, diagnostic imaging centers and ambulatory surgery centers. The commercial agreement…

The White House is backing a push for AI to take over more of the duties of physicians, The Washington Post reported. The Trump administration supports an experiment in Utah where AI is writing prescriptions, plans to offer over $50…

Oracle completed a round of job cuts this month, with 539 taking place at the former Cerner campus in Kansas City, Mo. The software giant bought the EHR vendor in 2022 for $28.4 billion, later redubbing it Oracle Health. The…

HHS, under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has sought access to detailed patient records held by state health information exchange systems as part of an effort to research a potential link between vaccines and autism, KFF Health News reported June…

Laurinburg, N.C.-based Scotland Health Care System was named a finalist for the 2026 American Hospital Association Rural Hospital Excellence in Innovation Award for its health-at-home program. The program includes community health workers visiting patients at home to support medication management…

Health systems across the country have been committing to enterprise-scale AI partnerships throughout 2026, moving beyond isolated pilots toward systemwide deployments spanning clinical documentation, decision support, virtual care and workforce management. Below are notable enterprise AI deals announced so far…

A study of more than 1,500 clinicians at Renton, Wash.-based Providence found that ambient AI documentation tools reduced note-writing time and after-hours documentation burden, with modest per-provider gains that compounded into system-level relief at scale. Published May 29 in JAMA…

State legislatures are moving faster than Congress on AI in healthcare. At least four states have enacted laws that directly govern how health systems must disclose or limit AI use in clinical care, and dozens more bills are advancing in…

Scott MacLean has spent eight years building MedStar Health’s IT environment around a simple conviction: fewer tools used better. As senior vice president and CIO at Columbia, Md.-based MedStar, a 10-hospital integrated delivery system affiliated with Georgetown University Medical Center…

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health spent years proving that firearm injury risk screening could become a routine part of clinical care before its approach was integrated into Epic and made available to health systems nationwide. The firearm safety screening…