Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Cleveland Clinic has partnered with automation startup Luminai to reduce administrative burden and allow caregivers to focus more on patients, Forbes reported. Their first use case will focus on streamlining referrals, which often still arrive via fax, according to the…

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System is debuting a digital technology to assist eye surgeons during glaucoma and other ophthalmic procedures. The tool was developed by Sean Ianchulev, MD, director of ophthalmic innovation and technology at New York Eye…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on April 9 announced the first rollout of tools aimed at building a modern digital health ecosystem, marking an early step in the agency’s push to modernize how patients access and share healthcare…

The healthcare and public health sector was the leading target of cyber threats in 2025, the FBI reported. Here are five things to know from the agency’s annual Internet Crime Report, released April 6: 1. Healthcare and public health experienced…

The FDA is challenging health tech innovators to design medical devices that can support patients in the home after a hospital stay to prevent readmissions. The READI-Home (aka Reducing Readmissions through Device Innovation for the Home) Innovation Challenge launched April…

Milford (Mass.) Regional went live with UMass Memorial Health’s Epic EHR system April 1. Milford Regional joined UMass Memorial Health in 2024. A spokesperson for UMass Memorial Health told Becker’s the Epic go-live was “one of many significant integration milestones…

Brockton, Mass.-based Signature Healthcare said it does not anticipate a cyber incident that began April 6 will be resolved in the next few days. “Based on the information we have at this time, we do not anticipate the situation being…

Cleveland Clinic has named three startup companies to its latest Quantum Innovation Catalyzer Program cohort to support research into how quantum computing could advance healthcare and life sciences. The program selected EntangleBio, Polaris Quantum Biotech and Singularity Quantum from a…

Patients are increasingly turning to chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude for advice on how to fight medical bills with hospitals and payers, The New York Times reported. In some cases, patients have received advice from the AI that assisted them…

Unless payment models are updated, AI could drive up healthcare costs without boosting patient outcomes, a researcher at Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania says. To avoid overspending and ensure benefits, policymakers may need new frameworks that tie AI reimbursement more closely…