Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Anthropic has committed $200 million in grant funding and other uses of its Claude chatbot to the Gates Foundation, with a focus on healthcare. The AI startup will dedicate resources to creating new drugs and vaccines and helping governments better…

OpenAI is expanding Codex capabilities with new mobile access and support for HIPAA-compliant use in certain enterprise healthcare settings. Here are five things to know: According to the news release, Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app is rolling out in…

Epic increased its hospital EHR market share again in 2025, continuing a gradual upward growth trajectory, KLAS Research reported. While the EHR vendor didn’t gain as many acute care multispecialty hospitals as it did in 2023 and 2024, its market…

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos is a large language model designed to supercharge computer security. But in the hands of hackers, it can be a powerful tool to exploit vulnerabilities. The company announced Project Glasswing April 7 to use Mythos Preview for…

It’s no secret that one of AI’s greatest use cases has been to streamline internal operations and administrative tasks at healthcare organizations. But, for some payers and their parent companies, these technologies are going even further, now serving as a…

Upon the technology’s arrival, Kensaku Kawamoto, MD, PhD, University of Utah Health’s inaugural chief health AI transformation officer, considered himself something of an AI skeptic. The longtime clinical informatics leader spent a lot of his career building digital health tools…

Clinicians across the country are using AI tools their organizations never approved, often to solve real, urgent problems. The phenomenon, known as shadow AI, sits at the center of a governance challenge that is growing faster than most health systems…

Freeman Health System in Joplin, Mo., is rolling out its new Epic EHR Oct. 24. Epic will serve as a single, integrated platform for the health system’s four hospitals, behavioral health center Ozark Center and its primary, urgent and specialty…

Patients of Lewiston-based Central Maine Healthcare have had trouble accessing their digital medical records since the health system switched EHRs, the Lewiston Sun Journal reported. The three-hospital network transitioned to Epic on May 1, a cornerstone of the $150 million…

Epic continued to grow its hospital EHR market share lead in 2025, though the company didn’t gain as many hospitals as it did the previous two years, KLAS Research reported. Here are eight things to know from the IT researcher’s…