A year and a half ago, Bob Berbeco was doing what most health system CIOs know all too well. He was fielding AI pitches, launching pilots and watching vendor promises accumulate. Then he decided to stop. For most rural hospitals,…

Most large health systems have spent the last several years working toward a single, unified EHR platform. But getting there is rarely quick.  Mergers, acquisitions and phased rollouts mean many of the country’s biggest hospitals and health systems are still…

Boston Children’s Hospital and OpenEvidence have launched a multiyear collaboration to study how clinicians’ point-of-care use of AI tools relates to clinical practice patterns and care delivery. The project, unveiled July 16, will analyze aggregated, provider-level data to identify links…

At least 16 hospitals and health systems are searching for permanent chief information officers, but CEOs say they are looking for something broader than the traditional technology executive. As AI reshapes healthcare and digital strategy moves closer to the center…

Rockville Centre, N.Y.-based Catholic Health and GE HealthCare have signed a 10-year, approximately $500 million strategic partnership, known as a Care Alliance, to modernize imaging and diagnostic technology across the six-hospital system. The agreement, unveiled July 16, will add more…

San Francisco-based Bunkerhill Health raised $55 million in Series B funding July 16 to expand its Carebricks agentic AI platform — bringing total funding to $55 million across its seed, Series A and Series B rounds, according to a news…

Ask a health system CIO which of their peers does technology best, and most have an answer ready. Ask them to size up their own budgets against the industry, or to name the executive title healthcare could live without, and…

A cyberattack on New Jersey law firm Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis has exposed data on 12,801 patients across three health systems in the state. Greenbaum discovered unauthorized access to its systems through a compromised user account in November 2025…

San Francisco-based UCSF Health has launched UCSF Health Converge, an AI accelerator built with Kleiner Perkins and Doerr Capital that embeds startups directly inside the health system’s clinical operations. The program takes an “inside-out” approach, selecting a small number of…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has deployed roughly 150 AI models across its health system, CNN reported July 16.  The tally, according to Matthew Callstrom, MD, a radiologist and medical director of the health system’s generative AI program, spans tools built…