Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Health systems are rapidly expanding their AI footprints, but leaders at some of the largest organizations told Becker’s that portfolio size matters less than what holds up under evaluation, scales across the enterprise and delivers provable clinical and operational value.…

Remote patient monitoring can help detect early health changes among lung transplant recipients in their first year after discharge, Mayo Clinic researchers found. During the 12-month study, published April 30 in the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation Open, researchers…

As a result of implementing Epic, Lewiston, Maine-based Central Maine Healthcare is planning to lay off 38 IT workers, Sun Journal reported April 28. A spokesperson for the health system system told the publication that the reductions are tied to…

Orlando (Fla.) Health has opened a new innovation hub at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. The Orlando Health Strategic Innovations space is located within the university’s innovation building and is designed to bring together health system leaders, students…

For the past several years, health systems have largely been buyers in the AI market by licensing tools, onboarding platforms and integrating point solutions at a pace that would have seemed implausible a decade ago. But a new dynamic is…

Oracle Health has resumed its U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs EHR rollout after a three-year hiatus and has been working to advance CMS’ “Kill the Clipboard” initiative. Meanwhile, the EHR vendor continues to refine its AI and upgrade strategy. “[E]nhancements…

AI was front and center during recent earnings calls for UnitedHealth Group and Elevance Health, as leaders discussed their companies’ respective $1.5 billion and $1 billion tech investments. Both organizations, along with Centene, made Fortune‘s top companies for AI adoption in 2025, as well. Payers…

The American Hospital Association is pointing health systems to a federal advisory warning that Chinese hackers are employing the “covert networks” of compromised devices to prepare for and carry out cyberattacks. “For hospitals, this is particularly relevant,” said John Riggi,…

While the CMS waiver to provide acute hospital care at home has existed since 2020, the majority of hospitals and health systems still don’t have a program. Here are four ways to increase adoption, according to Austin Kilaru, MD, a…

Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua Health has eliminated 15,000 excess hospital days after building AI tools with Microsoft. Here are three things to know from an April 7 Microsoft news release: 1. The five-hospital system created Power BI dashboards and Copilot summaries…