Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Teladoc Health is expanding its virtual care offerings through Walmart’s Better Care Services platform, giving customers access to services including urgent care, dermatology and nutrition support.  Customers can access Teladoc Health’s services through insured and cash-pay options, including an $89…

Anthropic candidates are being evaluated on more than technical skills, Bloomberg Businessweek reported May 28. The AI startup behind Claude uses an intensive hiring process that probes candidates’ ethical reasoning, intellectual independence and views on AI safety. One of the…

Carrollton, Ga.-based Tanner Health has deployed an AI-enabled workforce and HR support platform for its frontline employees. The platform provides personalized career guidance and workforce support at scale, according to a May 28 news release. The technology uses AI-enabled intake…

At the VA, the case for ambient AI is being made at scale — and the bar for what works is unlike anywhere else.  The U.S. health system that does more than any other has a paradoxically brief, well-known two-letter…

I have spent most of my career building software that helps physicians take care of patients. Too much of what the HCIT industry has built serves billing, compliance, and documentation requirements — all real needs, but not the core need…

Major EHR vendors are racing to dominate healthcare AI, but IT leaders at health systems say their AI strategies extend far beyond their EHR vendors. Epic, Oracle Health and Meditech, the three largest EHR vendors in the U.S., have leaned…

Hospitals and health systems face a growing cyberattack surface because of the increasing use of largely autonomous agentic AI. Here are five updates: 1. As the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center reported May 26: “Cyber risk is no longer…

Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health has launched a partnership with AI platform Lind to improve patient identification and matching for cancer clinical trials. The health system will embed Lind’s platform into its EHR to automatically screen patients for clinical trial eligibility,…

Cleveland Clinic has become the national leader in organ donor registration via MyChart after Epic launched the new feature a year ago. Here are six things to know from a May 27 Epic news release: 1. Cleveland Clinic has had…

Epic is continuing to grow its hospital EHR market share lead, though its gains weren’t as pronounced in 2025 as in previous years. Here are 14 things to know about the EHR giant’s run of success: 1. Over 325 million…