Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Health systems have spent the past two years stress-testing ambient AI scribes, but isolating return on investment has remained difficult due to many overlapping initiatives and a lack of clean attribution paths. Agentic AI is shifting that calculus. When an…

Oracle Health is advancing voice commands in the EHR while participating in government initiatives to expand interoperability and the adoption of electronic prior authorizations. Here are nine times Becker’s reported on the EHR vendor in the past month: 1. Oracle…

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has developed a firearm safety screening tool that is now available to health systems nationwide through Epic. The tool was integrated into Epic’s May 2026 software release, allowing Epic customers to adopt Northwell’s firearm…

Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner said the EHR vendor’s interoperability push over the past two decades has improved care and saved lives. The company launched Care Everywhere in 2008, allowing patients to share their electronic medical records across disparate…

Anthropic plans to soon release an advanced version of Claude that has given health system leaders pause over cybersecurity concerns. Here are six updates about Claude Mythos: 1. The AI developer intends to introduce Mythos-level models to all its customers…

Healthcare burnout is often discussed through the lens of staffing shortages, administrative burden, and rising patient demand. Those pressures are real, but one often-overlooked factor is communication friction inside clinical workflows. A missed update, delayed response, unclear handoff, or unreliable…

Healthcare AI is leaving its experimental phase behind — most organizations are already using it, and 43% are piloting or testing agentic AI. There are numerous success stories where healthcare organizations deployed AI in pilots or applied AI in a…

The Coalition of Health AI has released guidance on AI governance for health systems. The organization, which includes health systems, universities and tech companies, suggests eight critical elements: organizational AI policy, organizational structure, organizational resources, responsible AI lifecycle management, risk…

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente Ventures is furthering its investment in digital platform Garner Health, joining a $100 million series E funding round for the care navigation startup. Garner Health uses a proprietary dataset of over 60 billion medical records to…

In late 2025, Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic set out to aggressively scale up AI agents. Who better to design them than the nurses who’ll be using them? The academic health system recently challenged its nurses to devise largely autonomous AI…