Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Signature Healthcare is responding to a cybersecurity incident that has disrupted portions of its information systems, prompting the Brockton, Mass.-based health system to shift to manual operations while continuing patient care. The health system identified suspicious activity in part of…

To spur healthcare AI adoption, policymakers must strike the right balance between enabling innovation and maintaining policy safeguards that protect patients and improve their experience, American Hospital Association President and CEO Rick Pollack wrote. Here are the AHA’s four priorities…

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird has filed a lawsuit against Change Healthcare, alleging the company violated state consumer protection and data security laws in connection with a 2024 data breach that affected nearly 2.2 million Iowa residents. Filed March 31,…

Jackson (Ala.) Hospital is notifying 13,910 individuals that their data may have been breached in a cybersecurity incident involving a debt collector. The hospital said it discovered in late January that its patients’ information was compromised in a July 2024…

Jeffrey Cohen, MD, has spent four decades in healthcare. For much of that time, describing patients as consumers was heresy. Not anymore. “If somebody had talked about consumerism in healthcare when I was starting out and when I was training,…

Hackers demand an average of $18.2 million after a healthcare ransomware attack, nearly six times more than the next-closest industry, according to a BakerHostetler analysis. Here are seven more things to know from the annual Data Security Incident Response Report,…

Gritman Medical Center in Moscow, Idaho, has resumed normal operations across its offices and clinics after a cybersecurity incident forced widespread closures, though some phone outages persist at rural locations. All Gritman offices and clinics reopened on regular schedules April…

Agentic AI is arriving in health systems before anyone has agreed on how to contain it — whether to deploy narrow, task-specific agents or broader autonomous use cases, and how to build meaningful oversight into both. Health system IT leaders…

As generative AI rapidly reshapes healthcare, a new challenge is emerging across hospitals and health systems: “shadow AI,” or the unsanctioned use of AI tools by clinicians and staff. While these tools promise efficiency and innovation, they also introduce significant…

The conversation around safe and effective use of artificial intelligence (AI) has largely focused on issues like bias in training data and bad outputs like hallucinations. But as pilots evolve into enterprise-wide deployments, our industry cannot overlook how human users…