Health IT news and digital transformation trends

For years, the conversation about AI in health systems centered on technology adoption: which tools to buy, which pilots to run, which workflows to automate. But as health systems move from isolated AI deployments toward enterprise-wide agentic platforms, the limiting…

The American Hospital Association is calling for a delay to proposed updates to a federal health data exchange framework, warning the changes could expose hospitals to legal and privacy risks. In an April 24 comment letter to the Sequoia Project,…

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine has rolled out hospital at home at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, both in Philadelphia. The academic health system spent nearly three years building the program, from concept to pilot to…

Renton, Wash.-based Providence now has 12 AI use cases in Epic after upgrading the EHR in April. As part of the 51-hospital system’s Project Pixel, clinical and revenue cycle applications, informatics and healthcare intelligence staffers are rolling out Epic AI…

Epic continues to expand its footprint across health systems through new implementations, product updates and partnerships.  In the past 30 days, organizations have gone live on Epic, adopted new artificial intelligence tools within the EHR, and participated in federal data-sharing…

Health systems are experiencing rising call volumes while using phone systems that weren’t designed for today’s digital expectations. AI-based technologies are changing the landscape, enabling organizations to improve the patient experience and reduce costs. During Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting in…

Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health has expanded its TeleNICU program to new sites in Montana and Wyoming, with plans to add Nevada, according to a March 25 report from the Utah Hospital Association. The program connects well-baby nurseries…

When Anika Gardenhire, RN, stepped into the newly created chief digital and information officer role at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, Mich., in March, she joined the organization at a time of broader strategic focus on integration and technology-forward thinking.…

Health systems have been saving millions of dollars and hundreds of hours through partnerships with Big Tech companies. Here are six collaborations Becker’s reported on in the past month: 1. Boston Children’s Hospital has forged unique collaborations with tech companies…

For new neurology patients, seeing a physician in person or virtually made no difference in how soon they needed care next, according to an April 22 study in Neurology. The researchers used EHR data from three academic medical centers to…