Health IT news and digital transformation trends

CVS Health is partnering with Google Cloud to develop an AI-powered consumer engagement platform as part of a broader effort to reshape how patients interact with the healthcare system. In a March 5 news release, the company announced a partnership…

Greenville, N.C.-based ECU Health has entered into an agreement to sell its home health and hospice business unit to Liberty Home Care and Hospice, pending approval from the North Carolina attorney general’s office. The transaction would include all ECU Health…

Four health systems’ venture capital arms are participating in a $27.4 million financing round for virtual care startup KeyCare. York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health, Minneapolis-based Allina Health, University of Chicago Ventures, and Edge Ventures (the investment arm of Emplify Health, headquartered…

Nashville, Tenn.-based Ardent Health incurred $4.8 million in Epic EHR expenses in 2025, according to a March 4 earnings report. The publicly traded 30-hospital system spent $1.9 million on Epic in Q4, up from $1.7 million in the same quarter…

In healthcare technology, rankings capture attention. But enterprise decisions are built on something else entirely. Health systems do not anchor long-term strategy on headlines. They anchor it on consistency. On economic clarity. On delivery credibility. On whether a partner continues…

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health reduced documentation time and improved clinician satisfaction after deploying Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot across its system in the fall. The health system began piloting the ambient AI tool in July and launched a full rollout in…

When a cyberattack knocked the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s digital systems offline, care teams at its Cancer Center and Research Institute turned a conference room into a command center, gathering around paper charts to coordinate treatment for cancer patients.…

Hospitals and health systems should increase cybersecurity and physical security vigilance amid the ongoing conflict involving Iran, John Riggi, national adviser for cybersecurity and risk at the American Hospital Association, told Becker’s. The war involving the United States, Israel and…

Bellevue, Wash.-based Overlake Medical Center & Clinics has partnered with Hyro, a healthcare AI services provider, to deploy AI voice and web agents aimed at modernizing patient access and contact center operations. As part of the rollout, Overlake automated MyChart…

Flipping a switch is easy. What happens after is where AI deployments can come apart. Mark Mabus, MD, chief medical informatics officer at Parkview Health — a nonprofit system spanning Northeast Indiana and Northwest Ohio — spent 2025 getting generative…