Health IT news and digital transformation trends

OpenAI has launched a biodefense initiative and expanded access to its life sciences-focused AI model, GPT-Rosalind, for select government and public health organizations. Here are six things to know:

CVS Health Ventures has led a $40 million investment in healthcare AI company H1. The investment comes after CVS Health and H1 worked together on initiatives aimed at helping patients connect with healthcare providers more quickly, according to a May…

Microsoft has launched a preview version of Copilot Health, an AI-powered platform that allows users to aggregate health records, wearable device data and other personal health information in one place. The tool is available to U.S. users ages 18 and…

At The Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York, artificial intelligence is already shouldering the real work of digesting reports, surfacing patterns in spreadsheets and taking on the kind of routine tasks that once ate up an executive’s afternoon. The hospital…

The American Hospital Association and Illinois Health and Hospital Association are urging the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court ruling in a website-tracking lawsuit against Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health, formerly known as Edward-Elmhurst Health. In…

Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, the company announced May 28, with the round led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital. “This funding will help us serve the historic demand…

Aurora, Colo.-based UC Health and Denver-based University of Colorado studied the implementation of Abridge’s AI scribe — as it was happening. The health system and university teamed up to analyze the live pilot of 250 ambulatory clinicians using the ambient…

House Republican leaders are calling on FBI Director Kash Patel to act aggressively to stop cybercriminal groups targeting the healthcare industry. In a May 28 letter to Mr. Patel, the lawmakers pointed to the sharp increase in healthcare ransomware attacks…

University Hospitals in Cleveland is partnering with Creative Destruction Lab and Case Western Reserve University to launch a healthcare innovation program designed to help startups test and scale technologies within a real clinical environment. The initiative, called CDL-Cleveland, will host…

Physicians use Alexa at home and Siri on their iPhones. When will they have the same experience in the hospital or clinic with the EHR? While EHR vendors offer voice activation today, health system IT leaders told Becker’s clinician adoption…