Health IT news and digital transformation trends

HHS has issued seven letters of potential nonconformity to companies suspected of illegally blocking access to electronic health information, Nextgov/FCW reported Oct. 19. Thomas Keane, MD, national coordinator for health IT, disclosed the previously unreported figure Oct. 15 at the…

A few years ago, companies like Amazon, Walmart and CVS Health were making ambitious moves into healthcare, promising to reshape how Americans accessed care. But after clinic closures, scaled-back expansion plans and shifting strategies, hospital innovation leaders say the disruption…

Healthcare AI gets tested twice. The first test is the demo: does the model do what it claims, in front of the people who will sign the contract. Almost every AI company in healthcare passes that test now. The second…

Much of a person’s health is shaped by everyday choices about sleep, food, movement and stress that happen outside hospitals and clinics, and Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health is working with Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global to support patients in…

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham researchers built an AI foundation model, trained on more than 40 million face images, that estimates biological age and predicts cancer survival from a single photograph. The model, called FAHR-Face, powers two tools detailed in…

Epic pairs new customers with a dedicated staff member, called a “BFF,” who keeps working with the organization after go-live, founder and CEO Judy Faulkner said in an Oct. 19 blog post. The role started informally during implementations, Ms. Faulkner…

Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health’s MyChart patient portal remains unavailable after the health system took its network offline in response to suspicious activity. In an Oct. 19 Facebook update, Parkview said it was experiencing a systemwide internet outage that had…

The JAMA Network announced Oct. 15 that it is launching a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to AI and emerging healthcare technologies, with manuscript submissions opening in early 2027. The online-only journal, called JAMA AI, will be the 14th publication in the…

Three lessons from healthcare leaders and organizations creating capacity, improving performance, and realizing more value from existing investments A common misconception in healthcare is that growth always requires additional resources. Increasingly, our team at Nordic is seeing the opposite. Some…

As healthcare leaders celebrate the FDA’s approval of daraxonrasib — a pancreatic cancer drug that nearly doubled survival in clinical trials — two harsh realities remain: most pancreatic cancer patients are still diagnosed at a late stage, and those treated…