Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Odessa, Fla.-based Starkey Ranch ER & Hospital has chosen Juno Health as its new EHR vendor. The facility started implementing the new EHR in November, less than a month after signing the deal, according to a March 2 Juno Health…

Forty-four lawsuits against Kettering (Ohio) Health over a 2025 ransomware attack have been consolidated into a single complaint. The 14-hospital system was struck by the Interlock ransomware group in May 2025, causing the organization to shut down all 600 of…

Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health delivered $27.9 million in value in 2025 from an AI assistant developed with Google Cloud. The payer-provider’s employees have now prompted the generative AI tool, Sidekick, over 6 million times, and the application has 74 active use…

Opelousas (La.) General Health System is expanding a shared technology infrastructure model designed to help rural hospitals access advanced IT capabilities without increasing costs. The health system partnered with technology solutions firm Triad Executive Advisors in 2025 to modernize its…

Lawmakers are raising concerns about whether additional federal safeguards are needed to protect Americans’ health data when it is uploaded to artificial intelligence tools, Nextgov/FCW reported March 6. During a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing March 5,…

Medicare beneficiaries had about 60 million telehealth visits per year between 2021 and 2023, according to a February study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.  Co-author and University of Utah assistant professor Terrence Liu, MD, broke down the findings March…

New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian is beginning to see early signals from its hospital-at-home program, which launched in November 2025 as health systems across the country continue testing whether acute-level hospital care can be delivered safely in patients’ homes. The model…

Southeast Health in Dothan, Ala., has joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network, becoming the first hospital in Alabama to participate in the collaboration. The Mayo Clinic Care Network connects independent health systems with Mayo Clinic expertise, providing member organizations access…

Public health systems sit on mountains of data — yet insight remains scarce. The organizations closing that gap aren’t just investing in better dashboards. They’re fundamentally rethinking who gets to use data, and how. A mid-sized public health system in…

For hospitals across the U.S., launching AI pilots over the last 18 months took considerable work. But that was the easy part compared to what’s next. Getting a vendor in the door, running a proof of concept, generating promising numbers…