Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Healthcare technology conversations often focus on improving efficiency at the point of care — reducing the note-taking burden, streamlining workflows, adding telehealth capabilities and giving clinicians more time with patients. These investments are necessary, particularly as provider burnout remains a…

About one-third of Americans say they get health information from social media, while a smaller but growing share turn to artificial intelligence chatbots, according to an April 7 analysis from Pew Research Center. The findings, based on a survey of…

Brockton, Mass.-based Signature Healthcare and Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital are still diverting ambulance traffic as they respond to a cybersecurity incident that began April 6. In an April 7 update shared with Becker’s, the health system said many of its…

Veradigm has named Christian Greyenbuhl its next CFO. Mr. Greyenbuhl joins the company from Ministry Brands, which provides software tools for churches and nonprofits, according to an April 6 Veradigm news release. He has served as Ministry Brands’ CFO since…

Middleburg Heights, Ohio-based Southwest General has reduced average EHR time per patient by 18.6% and after-hours work by 14.15% after implementing Oracle Health’s Clinical AI Agent. In the year since deployment, clinicians generated approximately 81,000 notes using the AI tool,…

Hims & Hers disclosed a data security incident affecting a limited number of individuals after unauthorized access to its customer service platform earlier this year. The company said it discovered suspicious activity Feb. 5 involving a third-party customer service system…

The technology is arriving faster than most health systems can evaluate it. Artificial intelligence tools, vendors and platforms are flooding the market, each promising to solve the problems that have defined American healthcare for decades — workforce shortages, administrative burden,…

Public openness to AI in healthcare is declining even as more Americans turn to the technology to make medical decisions, an April 7 survey from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center found. The survey, conducted by SSRS on its…

Epic is inviting app developers and other healthcare experts to its headquarters in Wisconsin to build a more connected data ecosystem. The second annual Open@Epic conference will take place in October in Verona, Wis. Since the first event, held in…

Dayton, Ohio-based Premier Health is scaling two clinical decision-support tools. UpToDate Expert AI combines evidence-based clinical information with advanced AI and is the only AI clinical reference tool approved by the five-hospital system’s AI governance committee, according to an April…