Health IT news and digital transformation trends

As demand for clinical informatics and AI expertise accelerates, UChicago Medicine is extending its training model beyond its own workforce — aiming to help build a global pipeline of clinical IT leaders. The health system recently partnered with Taiwan’s Ministry…

Researchers at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic used AI to determine that measuring fat around the heart greatly improves the accuracy of predicting long-term cardiovascular disease risk. The investigators applied AI to thousands of study participants’ standard coronary artery scans, finding…

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine is working with Epic to incorporate more “nudges” into the EHR to lead clinicians and patients to evidence-based choices for better health outcomes. Leaders from Penn Medicine and Epic gathered recently in Philadelphia to discuss opportunities to…

An incident compromised a Children’s Minnesota staff member’s email account and was used to send fraudulent messages. The organization said the breach occurred April 9, when the account was accessed by an unauthorized party and used to distribute emails that…

A wave of health systems has moved to launch or expand hospital-at-home programs in 2026, buoyed by a federal reimbursement extension that has given organizations the financial footing to invest in the care model. After the federal government extended the…

It took less than a week at the start of 2026 for three of the world’s largest technology companies to each announce dedicated health AI products. The rush has not slowed since. OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon all debuted consumer and…

By 2036, healthcare IT will likely be unlike anything we see today — not because of a single breakthrough technology, but because of how deeply digital tools are embedded into care delivery. Across health systems, chief medical and nursing informatics…

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to go live April 11 with its new Oracle Health EHR at four medical centers in Michigan, The Detroit News reported April 10. The sites will be Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Detroit and…

Health systems are rapidly adopting AI, but few have successfully scaled those investments into measurable results, according to an April 9 report from Qventus. The report, based on a survey and one-on-one interviews with more than 60 CIOs, chief AI…

Reid Health is now live with Emmie, Epic’s AI virtual assistant for patients, making the Richmond, Ind.-based health system the second hospital to implement the technology. Muhammad Siddiqui, CIO at Reid Health, said the decision was driven by a shift…