Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Jay Shah, MD, chief of the medical staff at Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care, has been named chief medical advisor of health tech startup Amigo AI. The company also raised $11 million in March 10 series A funding led…

Stryker said several surgical technology platforms remain unaffected as the company continues responding to a cyberattack that disrupted its Microsoft-based internal environment beginning March 11. Here are 12 updates about the cyberattack:

CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, is not only encouraging AI use across his agency but also with Medicare beneficiaries, he said in a recent interview with HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf. “Why wouldn’t we, within a year, be able to give…

A former medical case management coordinator at Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health pleaded guilty to tampering with prescription medications. Shelbi Wolken, 35, of Wheat Ridge, Colo., pleaded guilty to one count of tampering with a consumer product, according to a March…

The guide wire felt wrong. My hands, trained over two decades and thousands of procedures, sensed a resistance the navigation screen denied. The system’s three-dimensional reconstruction, a confident render of the patient’s sinus anatomy, showed a clear path. My proprioception,…

After attending HIMSS March 9-12 in Las Vegas, health system CIOs are excited about implementing agentic AI — and getting a return on investment from it — while governance is becoming “cool,” as one leader put it. The healthcare IT…

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City are examining how artificial intelligence systems perform when faced with heavy workloads in clinical environments, finding that system design may play a larger role than the…

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Nemours Children’s Health has expanded its Advanced Care at Home program across multiple states and more than doubled the number of children served since Becker’s last reported on the initiative. When Becker’s covered the program in November, Nemours…

Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health has launched a pilot program in its emergency medicine department to train residents to use artificial intelligence-powered note-taking technology during patient encounters. The program at UC Davis Medical Center trains residents to use a generative…

Stryker is continuing to respond to a global network disruption affecting its Microsoft environment that began March 11, though the incident has not disrupted U.S. hospital operations, according to the American Hospital Association. Here are 10 things to know about…