Health IT news and digital transformation trends

AI underperforms on simple number-crunching tasks that hospital administrators rely on to track admissions and apportion resources, Mount Sinai and Mayo Clinic researchers found. The study’s authors analyzed nine large language models’ ability to perform two straightforward administrative tasks —…

Rob Allen doesn’t pretend the pace of change is easy. As president and CEO of Intermountain Health — a six-state system headquartered in Salt Lake City with 34 hospitals, more than 400 clinics, and an insurance arm covering more than…

Atrium Health, part of Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health, said a data security incident involving EHR vendor Oracle Health may have exposed patient information tied to legacy systems used before the organization transitioned to other EHR platforms. The incident affected certain…

15 to 20% of all first-time claims are denied, 65% of those denials are never resubmitted and 86% were entirely avoidable. The math adds up to $36 billion in annual revenue losses for U.S. health systems, plus an additional $20…

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has rolled out an initiative to fortify critical infrastructure sectors’ cybersecurity against attacks from nation-state threat actors, the American Hospital Association reported. The project underscores the importance of preemptive isolation and recovery planning when…

Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner is enlisting the help of health system executives to ensure the company she started in a basement in the late 1970s never gets sold. As part of her succession plan, the 82-year-old has dedicated…

UNC Health is deploying Evidently’s clinical data intelligence platform across its hospitals and clinics in North Carolina’s Triangle region following a 12-week pilot program involving 100 users. The rollout will give clinicians, documentation specialists and other care team members tools…

The longest-tenured CIO among the 10 largest U.S. health systems has held the role since 2018, while half of these organizations have installed new technology leaders within the last two years.  Here is a look at the current CIO at…

A federal lawsuit tied to Prospect Medical Holdings’ 2023 data breach has been voluntarily dismissed. According to a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, plaintiffs and Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings jointly filed a…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and Abridge have codeveloped an AI-powered documentation tool for nursing, involving nurses every step of the way. The health system and AI startup began working together in 2024 to build the application. After launching the AI,…