Health IT news and digital transformation trends

NYU Langone Hospitals received a grand jury subpoena from the U.S. attorney’s office in the Northern District of Texas seeking information related to patients younger than 18 who received gender-affirming care between 2020 and 2026. The subpoena, which New York…

Cleveland Clinic’s quantum computing program has moved from a pilot phase to a fully operational “innovation engine” integrated with AI, according to Lara Jehi, MD, chief research information officer at the health system. “It’s been a whirlwind, and we’ve made…

Cleveland-based University Hospitals has integrated Fullscript into its EHR, allowing physicians to recommend supplements and vitamins directly to patients through Epic. The integration gives providers greater visibility into patients’ supplement use and allows patients to access clinician-recommended products through the…

Vanderbilt Health in Nashville, Tenn., is rolling out an AI-powered virtual assistant within its patient portal. The tool launched April 1 at Primary Care One Hundred Oaks as part of a phased implementation and marks the first patient-facing AI tool…

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care has surpassed 1 million clinical notes generated using DAX Copilot, now known as Dragon Copilot, an ambient AI tool that listens to patient visits and drafts documentation directly into the EHR. Troy Foster, Stanford…

A tool from tech company Bayesian Health has become the first continuous AI sepsis monitor to gain FDA approval. The solution monitors hospital patients to detect deterioration and flag sepsis early on. The application was developed at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins…

Certain AI tools may help alleviate emergency department overcrowding, researchers at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic found. The study authors conducted a prospective study evaluating an AI model that predicts hospital admission risk, alternately showing and hiding its suggestions to clinicians…

Peter Banko, president and CEO of Baystate Health is all in on AI transformation. He’s excited about what new technology can bring to the organization across all departments and sees real opportunity for needle-moving investments across the platform. But that…

The ambient AI story has moved on, and health systems are now building what comes next A field report from “Enterprise-Grade AI as Infrastructure: Scaling the New System of Intelligence for Healthcare,” the Abridge summit at Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting.…

Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health has sped up prior authorizations with AI in Epic. Here are five things to know from a May 4 Epic case study: 1. Advocate Health replaced phone and fax-based prior authorization workflows with digital processes in…