Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Healthcare has been among the industries most affected by data breaches related to staff mistakes, according to Verizon. “Breaches take many forms, but in the healthcare sector, one pattern stands out: miscellaneous errors,” the telecom giant stated in its annual…

Health systems are making longer-term investments in their technology workforces in 2026, signaling a shift away from reactive hiring and toward building sustainable pipelines, leadership structures and internal expertise as digital transformation accelerates across healthcare. The push comes as organizations…

At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting, healthcare leaders gathered at an Optum-sponsored executive roundtable to discuss AI in action—and the clinical and financial value it’s delivering today. The roundtable was moderated by Devin Airey, managing director at The Advisory Board. Panelists…

Epic has asked a federal court to dismiss a class-action lawsuit accusing the EHR vendor of using its market dominance to restrict interoperability and make it difficult for disabled patients to obtain medical records needed for Social Security disability claims.…

Integrated Home Care Services, a Miramar, Fla.-based in-home benefit manager, has acquired Dina Care, an AI-enabled care coordination and referral management platform, the companies announced May 20. The combined platform is designed to serve health plans and risk-bearing organizations across…

Ascension is building far more than a telehealth program across its sprawling footprint of 110 hospitals and nearly 2,000 care sites. The St. Louis-based health system is developing what Krisda Chaiyachati, MD, associate vice president of clinical transformation at Ascension,…

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has deployed OpenEvidence systemwide, giving clinicians access to patient-specific medical literature within its EHR.  The clinical reference tool links peer-reviewed evidence to patient data — including prior procedures, medications, allergies and comorbidities — to support diagnosis and…

AI company Anthropic is enabling users previewing Claude Mythos to share their cybersecurity findings with other organizations. Here are six things to know about the development and what it means for healthcare: 1. Anthropic decided not to publicly release its…

Medicaid recipients who received hospital-at-home care in Massachusetts had strong outcomes, a new study found. Here are eight things to know from the May study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: 1. Researchers studied 906 acute hospital care…

New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center said its positive financial results in the first quarter of 2026 were due in part to its new Epic EHR. The organization said its $107 million surplus and operating margin of 9%…