Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health aims to move its entire system onto a single EHR by 2030 and is running two years ahead of schedule, executives said during the health system’s May 29 investor call.  The 137-hospital system said 65% of the…

Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health is reporting strong results, including no patient deaths or healthcare-acquired infections, from its first year of hospital at home. Here are five things to know from a June 1 news release: 1. Launched in April 2025,…

Anthropic’s valuation hit $965 billion in May after raising $65 billion in Series H funding, and now the AI company is making plans to go public. Five things to know: 1. Anthropic submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1…

Checks and balances exist across high-stakes sectors for a reason. Financial services, food safety, pharmaceuticals and environmental protection all rely on oversight because the consequences of failure are too serious to ignore. Artificial intelligence should be no different, especially in…

Boston Children’s Hospital has reclaimed about 60,000 hours from AI-enabled workflows since partnering with OpenAI at the enterprise level, saving over $7 million in redeployed labor. The pediatric health system, an early ChatGPT user, has also employed the developer’s AI…

While some health systems are pivoting away from AI projects more quickly than they had in the past, others are taking a cleaner approach: not starting them to begin with. As AI solutions proliferate, health systems are building evaluation and…

As healthcare systems navigate the transition to precision genomics, many are seeking partners who can help operationalize this shift at scale. Natera’s health system team works alongside health system leaders and providers to integrate advanced diagnostics into clinical workflows, improve…

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has completed the second wave of its enterprise Epic EHR rollout, a spokesperson for the health system confirmed to Becker’s. “After the success of our wave 1 go-live our wave 2 Epic launch is…

As AI implementation accelerates across hospitals and health systems, leaders are recognizing that successful initiatives hinge less on the sophistication or “flashiness” of the technology itself. Instead, success increasingly depends on solutions that are trusted, embedded and measured — and…

Seventy-four percent of healthcare organizations were affected by a third-party breach in the previous 24 months, yet many still struggle to monitor vendors after they are approved, a June 1 report from KLAS Research found. Based on interviews with 46…