Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Over the next decade, Daryl Tol, president and CEO of HATCo and acting CEO of Summa Health, hopes to use technology and AI to ease workforce shortages, Akron Beacon Journal reported May 21. Speaking at an Akron Roundtable event on…

President Donald Trump postponed signing a planned executive order that would have expanded federal oversight of AI models before their public release, The New York Times reported May 21. President Trump told reporters the proposal raised concerns about preserving the…

Microsoft has disrupted a cyber threat actor that targeted industries including healthcare, the tech giant said. In May, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, in partnership with Resecurity, interrupted Fox Fox Tempest’s malware-signing-as-a-service, which cybercriminals have employed to distribute malicious code, according…

Health system CIOs are eagerly watching the development of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, an yet-to-be-publicly-released AI model that can detect and exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The AI startup decided not to launch the new version of Claude because of those cybersecurity concerns,…

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins told congressional panels on May 20 that the rollout of the VA’s new EHR system is improving after years of delays and scrutiny, FedScoop reported May 21. During budget hearings before the Senate…

Health systems in 2026 are moving beyond AI experimentation and into a more disciplined phase of adoption. CIOs and digital leaders are shifting their focus away from isolated pilots and toward scalable, enterprise-wide deployments that can deliver measurable operational and…

Researchers at Cleveland Clinic and Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon University have developed an AI system designed to interpret cardiac MRI scans without manually labeled training data. The system was trained on more than 13,000 de-identified patient studies from Cleveland Clinic and…

Paterson, N.J.-based St. Joseph’s Health has saved millions of dollars from a blood management program in its Oracle Health EHR. Here are four things to know from a recent Oracle case study that analyzed data from May 2020 to January…

Cleveland-based MetroHealth System plans to deploy smart technology at 500 patient rooms across five hospitals. The public, safety-net health system intends to bring Artisight’s virtual nursing, virtual sitting and AI-powered fall monitoring and voice-command capabilities to its new Glick Center…

As Epic has grown, the company has faced intensified legal scrutiny over its size and employment agreements. According to Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner, noncompetes, for instance, are essential to protect the company’s trade secrets. “Let’s just look at…