Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Generative AI is already in clinical hands, sanctioned or not. Wolters Kluwer Health’s 2026 Future Ready Healthcare survey found 74% of physicians and 70% of nurses use generative AI at least weekly — and that 77% of physicians see hallucinations…

OpenAI said one of its internal AI models broke through security on a government statistics website to get hospital-bed data the site had refused to give it. The model was in reinforcement learning training at the time, according to a…

Three health systems have discontinued or announced plans to end hospital-at-home programs in 2026, even as the federal government has extended the Medicare initiative supporting the delivery of acute hospital care in patients’ homes. Congress extended the Acute Hospital Care…

Confido Health is expanding beyond AI voice agents to build out an agentic AI operating system that can execute administrative workflows across a medical practice. The company secured a $12.5 million series A extension following its $10 million series A…

Viroqua, Wis.-based Vernon Health plans to borrow $25 million in fiscal 2027 to fund a new EHR, according to S&P Global Ratings. The 25-bed critical access hospital, formally Vernon Memorial Hospital, will issue the debt as fixed-rate direct purchase bonds.…

Ransomware attacks and unverified ransomware claims targeting U.S. healthcare organizations increased 64% in the third quarter of 2026 from the second quarter, an Oct. 15 report from cybersecurity research company Comparitech found. Here are 10 things to know from the…

As hospitals expand their use of AI, Children’s Nebraska’s CIO is concerned that rising usage-based costs could eventually force physicians to weigh the expense of using the technology against the needs of their patients. Ryan Cameron, executive vice president and…

Aidoc’s CARE AI model, Artisight’s AI-powered patient monitoring device and Amazon’s pharmacy kiosk are among the healthcare AI and digital health tools named to Time’s Best Inventions of 2026 list. Time picked 300 inventions and 100 special mentions. The publication…

Judy Faulkner has spent the past year putting AI at the center of Epic. At the company’s August 2025 Users Group Meeting, the founder and CEO of the EHR giant introduced “healthcare intelligence,” her preferred name for the technology, and…

Health systems have handed a growing share of their IT work to outside vendors this year. Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health is outsourcing its IT service desk and applications support, and West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health is eliminating 207 IT…