Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Nebraska Medicine set out to use AI on a job its nurses spend thousands of hours on each year: pulling data from patient charts for its cancer registry. Two months later, the Omaha-based health system pulled the plug. The registry…

Philip Bernard, MD, usually waits until Tuesday to open his inbox. For Dr. Bernard, a pediatric intensivist who also serves as senior vice president and chief medical information officer of Dallas-based Children’s Health, that means an inbox full of clinical…

Moody’s Ratings found that 59% of the healthcare organizations it rates that suffered a cyber incident since 2020 were reached through a third-party vendor, compared with 40% across all sectors. Healthcare is the only sector where the third-party share has…

Health systems never switched on the connection between patients’ medical records and ChatGPT. They’re absorbing some of the cost anyway, and Epic is building a way to cut down on the traffic. Seth Howard, executive vice president of research and…

Business services provider Conduent has agreed to pay $80 million to settle class action litigation over the third-largest healthcare data breach on record, which exposed data on about 62.2 million people. Conduent signed the settlement Oct. 16 with plaintiffs in…

Middleburg Heights, Ohio-based Southwest General Health Center is expanding its partnership with Oracle to integrate clinical, financial and operational systems across the organization. The 368-bed independent, nonprofit hospital will adopt Oracle Health Patient Accounting, Oracle Health Data Intelligence and Oracle…

Amazon is hiring solutions architects, AI engineers, a healthcare security engineer and a sales executive to build and sell cloud and AI tools to healthcare and life sciences organizations, including medical device companies, startups and public health agencies. Here are…

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has completed a major scheduling conversion ahead of its Nov. 7 Epic go-live, which will encompass four hospitals and 538 ambulatory sites. The milestone, known as future encounter conversion, was completed Oct. 16 and…

An EHR transition is one of the most expensive projects a health system takes on, and the costs rarely stop at the purchase price. Training, temporary cuts to clinic volumes and revenue cycle disruption can drag on operating results for…

Fourteen healthcare organizations earned the highest designation in the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives’ 2026 Digital Health Most Wired survey. The organizations achieved level 10 in CHIME’s annual assessment of healthcare organizations’ digital capabilities. CHIME announced the results Oct.…