Health IT news and digital transformation trends

In conversations with healthcare executives nationwide, I’m hearing a consistent theme: their organizations are investing heavily in AI to address capacity constraints and improve care quality, but getting clinical teams to use these tools effectively remains one of their biggest hurdles. Not the technology itself—the workforce’s readiness to leverage it.…

Health IT leaders increasingly see vendor consolidation as central to achieving interoperability, but most organizations lack the tools to fully realize it, a March 24 survey from CliniComp found. The findings are based on a survey of CIOs conducted by…

New York City Health + Hospitals disclosed a data breach that may have exposed patients’ personal and health information after an unauthorized actor accessed its systems for more than two months. The public health system said it detected suspicious activity…

Cleveland Clinic is expanding its hospital-at-home model to Northeast Ohio, offering some patients the option to receive acute care at home instead of a traditional inpatient stay. The health system’s Hospital Care at Home program is launching on Cleveland’s west…

One in 3 U.S. consumers has used an AI chatbot for health information, double the share from a year ago, digital health researcher Rock Health found. The largest share of people are turning to ChatGPT, with a small percentage using…

Artesia (N.M.) General Hospital has integrated the Microsoft Dragon Copilot AI scribe into its TruBridge EHR. The hospital said its physicians are reporting more time saved on clinical documentation compared to nonintegrated clinical dictation software. “In medical school, we are…

A former employee of New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine briefly accessed patient records for reasons unrelated to their job and without authorization. The organization reported to HHS in late February that 516 patients were ensnared in the data breach,…

Health system executives are prioritizing AI, patient experience and growth initiatives as they navigate expected declines in capital investment, a March 24 report from Sage Growth Partners found. The report examines health IT purchasing plans for 2026 and 2027 based…

A patient has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Trinity Health and Health Gorilla, alleging a data breach tied to a third-party data-sharing network may have affected about 300,000 individuals and exposed sensitive information. The complaint, filed March 20 in…

Cleveland Clinic has partnered with DASI Simulations to validate the company’s Precision TAVI tool for planning transcatheter aortic valve replacements to develop a second-generation version. The tool generates predictive 3D simulations, allowing physicians to assess valve sizing, anatomy and procedural…