Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Vanderbilt University Medical Center experienced an EHR outage of approximately four hours, a spokesperson for the Nashville, Tenn.-based health system confirmed to Becker’s. The outage, which was not tied to a cyberattack or ransomware event, caused Vanderbilt University Hospital to…

Aspen (Colo.) Valley Health has launched a partnership with another Colorado hospital to expand access to Epic’s electronic health record platform for rural providers while maintaining local governance. Through Epic’s Community Connect program, Aspen Valley Health will extend its EHR…

Epic and several health systems have filed a stipulated judgment and proposed permanent injunction with telehealth company GuardDog Telehealth that, if entered by the court, would bar the company from accessing certain national health data-sharing networks and require it to…

Six weeks into his new role, UVA Health CIO Sonney Sapra says the Charlottesville, Va.-based academic health system must address foundational technology challenges, including technical debt, before accelerating more advanced digital innovation. “From a technology perspective, we’re an aspiring organization…

The recent cyberattack on medtech company Stryker must serve as a “wake-up call” about hackers’ evolving tactics, even as it illustrates a “new normal” in healthcare, health system leaders told Becker’s. Hackers disrupted the firm’s internal Microsoft environment March 11,…

The venture capital arms of three health systems have joined a $28 million series E equity financing round for neurosurgery tech company Monteris Medical. OSF Ventures, part of Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare, and the CU Healthcare Innovation Fund, which includes…

A health information network improperly tapped into Pittsburgh-based UPMC patient records by falsely claiming authorization to do so through a national medical data exchange. UPMC said in a March 13 news release it learned of the breach through Epic, its…

Health systems have moved past the exploring phase of artificial intelligence. Today, AI is fully embedded into clinical workflows, particularly for documentation, imaging, operational forecasting and population health. However, implementation is just the beginning; the real work lies in continuous…

New research from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is offering what the organization describes as the first publicly available data connecting rising hospital coding intensity to higher healthcare costs, pointing to AI-assisted coding tools as a likely driver. The…

As patients increasingly turn to AI tools to interpret their health data, nurses are encountering new challenges at the bedside, according to a March case study in Nursing Outlook. The paper describes a chemotherapy patient who used ChatGPT to interpret…