Health IT news and digital transformation trends

There is a graveyard in healthcare AI that never appears in health system announcements or investor decks. It is filled with tools that earned high accuracy scores in validation studies, wowed executives in demonstrations, and generated genuine excitement in pilots…

New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is partnering with HeartBeam, a medical technology company, to develop and validate a new AI-electrocardiogram algorithm. HeartBeam’s flagship product is its 12-lead ECG home monitoring system, which includes synthesis software…

Digital lifestyle nudges can help GLP-1 users focus on healthier habits, according to a study at Stanford (Calif.) Medicine. The researchers conducted an online randomized trial of over 5,000 adults using the weight-loss medications across the globe, finding that low-cost…

Louisville, Ky.-based Baptist Health has saved more than 600 hours on manual review over the past nine months after adopting Epic’s Aura platform, the American Medical Association reported. Aura connects health systems to specialty labs and device manufacturers, replacing previously…

Jefferson Health in Philadelphia launched a virtual primary care program in late 2024 to address one of healthcare’s biggest access challenges: a shortage of primary care appointments. Less than two years later, the model has become one of the health…

In December 2024, UCI Health completed three simultaneous milestones: it integrated four newly acquired hospitals onto a unified technology platform, opened a brand-new $1.2 billion hospital, and migrated from a shared Epic instance to its own dedicated one — all…

New Orleans, La.-based Ochsner Health is expanding its digital identity verification capabilities through a partnership with CLEAR aimed at improving how patients and employees access health system accounts and information. The nonprofit health system has implemented CLEAR1, a secure identity…

WVU Health System plans to deploy AI-assisted hospital room technology across all 25 of its hospitals through a new partnership with hellocare.ai. The Morgantown, W.Va.-based health system selected the company for an enterprise-wide rollout of its intelligent hospital room platform,…

President Donald Trump is calling for “unprecedented coordination across government and the private sector” to increase the nation’s cybersecurity. “Our adversaries and cyber criminals … disrupt critical services like healthcare, banking, food supply, and water treatment,” Mr. Trump wrote in…

West Burlington, Iowa-based Great River Health will implement Epic’s MyChart patient portal beginning June 6. The rollout is part of the system’s broader transition to Epic’s electronic health record. The portal will allow patients to view test results, schedule and…