Health IT news and digital transformation trends

The Joint Commission and the American Hospital Association created a first-of-its-kind program designed to help hospitals and health systems to sustain safe clinical operations during cyber-related technology outages. The Cyber Resilience Readiness program is a structured, free-to-complete self-assessment tool that…

Mayo Clinic research published April 28 showed an AI model could detect pancreatic cancer up to three years before clinical diagnosis. Projected to be the second-leading cause of cancer-related death in the U.S. by 2030, early diagnosis has a significant…

Columbus-based OhioHealth is piloting an AI-driven alert system to improve detection and treatment timelines for heart valve disease. The tool, evaluated in the ALERT trial, sends real-time notifications to physicians based on echocardiogram results, identifying patients who may need further…

While Epic regularly picks up health system clients from other EHR vendors, the company says it has only ever lost one customer. And that organization came back a year later. “I think they thought that the other [EHR] system might…

Ask most frontline clinicians what they need from AI, and the answer rarely starts with more data. The monitors already sound the alarm. The dashboards already flag. The EHR already surfaces risk scores. What clinicians need, and what most AI…

I recently had the privilege of joining senior leaders from Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, and USF Tampa General on a Becker’s Healthcare panel focused on unlocking quick AI wins. The conversation was candid and the ambitions for AI were high.…

When it comes to attempts at insurance fraud, the story behind claims could be a major threat. In a 2025 issue brief shared with Becker’s, the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association outlined several possibilities for fraud that AI could spur:…

In today’s healthcare landscape, we speak often of the transformation of shifting from volume to value, from episodic care to longitudinal outcomes, from fragmentation to coordination. At the same time, we ask leaders to evolve from operators to stewards, from…

With nearly 18 million U.S. employees, healthcare is the largest private-sector employer in the nation, yet the industry’s workforce has consistently been characterized by shortages, stress and burnout, according to a report from the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis…

The resumption of the Oracle Health implementation at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has so far been “phenomenal,” the agency’s secretary told lawmakers. The VA relaunched the EHR at four Michigan medical centers in April after a three-year hiatus…