Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health is sunsetting its Hospital at Home program, according to an Oct. 14 statement from the health system shared with Becker’s.  Cone Health made the decision following a comprehensive review of its priorities and the model’s sustainability. …

The American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, Anthropic and Elevance Health are participating in a national workgroup developing recommendations for how state medical boards should oversee AI in medical practice, a spokesperson for the Federation of State Medical Boards confirmed…

Microsoft and the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center have taken action to disrupt cybercrime infrastructure used to target organizations worldwide, including healthcare organizations. The effort, according to an Oct. 14 report from Microsoft, targeted three components of a Chinese-language…

Health system executives are under pressure to move fast on AI. They are implementing tools for ambient documentation, agentic AI, clinical decision support, revenue cycle automation and more. Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Health and…

Every day, in healthcare practices across the country, calls go unanswered, appointments get missed, and revenue quietly ages into bad debt. One 100-location dental service organization recovered more than $19 million after a full analysis of its patient interactions surfaced…

Health systems are generating more patient data than at any point in their history. Bedside monitors, ambulatory devices and home care technologies are producing a continuous stream of readings, signals and clinical indicators. But most of it isn’t translating automatically…

Gaithersburg, Md.-based Adventist HealthCare plans to implement Epic as its enterprisewide EHR platform, with a launch expected in 2028. The two-year initiative represents one of the most significant investments in the health system’s history, according to an Oct. 6 news…

Federal prosecutors have charged 14 people in a North Korean remote IT worker scheme that placed operatives at more than 70 U.S. companies, including healthcare employers. The four-count indictment, brought in the Northern District of Ohio, alleges wire fraud, money…

Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner told customers in August that health systems get more out of the EHR the more of it they turn on. Citing 31 enterprise go-lives, Epic found net revenue rose 13.7% in the second year…

AI documentation and billing tools are driving up healthcare costs without improving patient outcomes, according to an Oct. 14 report from the Peterson Health Technology Institute. The analysis found that under current fee-for-service incentives, administrative AI used for documentation, coding,…