Artificial intelligence has become a workforce issue as much as a technology one in healthcare, with 2026 bringing new evidence that clinicians are increasingly using AI while organizations continue to grapple with governance, training and labor concerns. Here’s what that…

Three Russian nationals and two St. Petersburg-based “bulletproof hosting” companies face federal charges for running criminal infrastructure that enabled cyberattacks causing more than $62 million in U.S. victim losses, including against hospitals. The Justice Department unsealed the indictment July 14…

I recently saw a commencement ceremony where something surprising happened: a commencement speaker was booed by the crowd. The speaker’s message? That the graduates entering the workforce today would be fine; that AI was just another technology shift, and that…

The hospitalist note template inside New Orleans-based Ochsner Health’s Epic system had gone unchanged for nearly a decade. This June, the 46-hospital system, which spans Louisiana and Mississippi, rebuilt it from the ground up and rolled it out everywhere at…

The National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and 15 allied agencies issued a joint advisory in July on a Russian FSB unit exploiting poorly configured routers worldwide. The unit, known as…

Dozens of hospitals have had their patient data compromised by a 2025 breach of Oracle Health’s legacy Cerner systems. Health systems continue to alert patients of the hack that occurred as early as Jan. 22, 2025. Oracle Health asked healthcare…

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals disclosed that a data breach at business associate Solventum Health Information Systems affected 58,778 patients. The incident involved unauthorized access to protected health information by a threat actor and occurred on or around…

The country’s largest healthcare company is placing a bet on Anthropic. Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group, is partnering with Anthropic “to responsibly bring AI to healthcare to help people live healthier lives, reduce the administrative burden, and make the health…

The industry conversation around healthcare AI has shifted. Health system leaders are no longer being asked whether to adopt the technology; they’re being held accountable for what adoption actually delivers. That accountability often rests on the answer to a simple…

There is a common misconception that artificial intelligence (AI) will improve efficiency steadily and uniformly across healthcare, from primary care offices to hospital ICUs. Instead, what is now emerging is a divergence in how AI impacts different care settings. AI…