Health IT news and digital transformation trends

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…

Health systems turning IT work over to outside vendors in 2026 have mostly framed the moves as a response to financial pressure and the growing complexity of healthcare technology. The details they have disclosed in news releases, WARN notices and…

Years of mergers and acquisitions left some of the largest U.S. health systems running dozens of EHRs at once. Most are now spending heavily to collapse those portfolios onto one platform, usually Epic. How many a system runs depends partly…

Health systems that use Epic can now connect to the Veterans Affairs Department’s External Provider Scheduling system, allowing VA staff to book veterans’ specialist appointments directly. The connection lets VA staff book a veteran’s appointment with a participating community provider…

A growing number of hospitals are adopting Epic, reinforcing the company’s position as the dominant electronic health record vendor in the U.S. hospital market. Epic expanded its lead in 2025, increasing its share of the acute care hospital EHR market…

San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare and UC San Diego Health are trying to manage patient expectations in North County, where the hospitals they began operating July 1 still run Oracle Health (formerly Cerner) EHRs instead of their new partners’ Epic platforms,…