Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Telehealth nurses and virtual nurses are the top two roles chief nursing officers are looking to fill in 2026, Wolters Kluwer reported. The survey of 150 hospital and health system leaders defined telehealth nurses as providing clinical and real-time audio/video…

Venture capital funding for digital health startups mostly went to a few big winners in the first quarter of 2026, researcher Rock Health reported. Here are five things to know from the April 6 report: 1. Total funding reached $4…

CMS plans to host a virtual event for healthcare interoperability executives this summer. The seventh-annual CMS & Health Level Seven International Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Connectathon takes place July 14-16. The gathering will comprise “healthcare interoperability leaders, implementers and innovators…

Epic has launched a new initiative to track health conditions at the county level and issue alerts when unusual trends emerge. The feature, called Health Alerts, uses statistical models applied to real-world medical records to identify when rates of specific…

Mount Gilead-based OhioHealth Morrow County Hospital has partnered with Columbus, Ohio-based MedOne Healthcare Partners to provide hospitalist care through a hybrid in-person and telehealth model. The model connects on-site advanced practice providers with MedOne’s remote physicians who evaluate patients via…

UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC Health, based in Chapel Hill, N.C., have launched a platform aimed at advancing artificial intelligence development using real-world clinical data. The platform, called SHIRE — short for Secure Health Informatics Research Environment — is a cloud-based…

Health systems using Epic are the first in the U.S. to begin sharing patient records with the Social Security Administration through a new federal interoperability framework. The connection is enabled through the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA,…

UF Health in Gainesville, Fla., has gone live with a modernization of its Epic EHR system, a move executives say will help standardize workflows, reduce variation and improve care delivery across the system. Stephen Motew, MD, president and CEO of…

For years, the promise of technology in healthcare has outpaced its delivery. EHRs were supposed to make care more efficient — and instead buried clinicians in documentation. Digital tools multiplied, and so did the administrative burden. The gap between what…

Most health systems talk about accelerating AI adoption. Sudipto Srivastava, chief data and analytics officer at Montefiore Health System in New York City, is thinking about the opposite problem. Mr. Srivastava, who oversees data analytics, organizational reporting, AI governance, and…