Health IT news and digital transformation trends

The Alabama Senate has passed legislation that would impose new requirements on insurers that use AI to make prior authorization decisions, including a mandate that any decision to deny a request must be made by a physician or other qualified…

From rolling out AI Charting to being named the top Overall Health System Suite by KLAS, here are nine updates on Epic’s operations, software products and partnerships Becker’s Hospital Review reported in February:

Ambience Healthcare has been named the 2026 KLAS/CHIME Trailblazer Award winner, an honor recognizing emerging vendors for innovation, impact and client success. The San Francisco-based company announced the award Feb. 23 in a news release. The Trailblazer Award — now…

Health systems have been demoing and exploring the adoption of Epic’s new AI scribe that will likely reshape the ambient clinical documentation market. Epic released AI Charting in early February, intensifying competition in the growing market for AI tools that…

If healthcare IT were golf, CIOs would take a few mulligans. Choosing and installing an EHR is one of the biggest, most complicated decisions IT leaders will ever make. Reflecting on their implementations, four executives shared hard-earned lessons around training…

In the high-stakes environment of acute care, communication is as critical as any clinical tool. Statistics show that nearly 40% of serious medical errors are attributed to communication failures—a sobering reality for hospitals juggling siloed departments, fragmented systems, and complex…

There’s growing recognition that you and your IT teams now play a more integral role than ever in evaluating healthcare software and equipment purchases. What was once primarily the domain of clinical teams has evolved into a collaborative effort, largely…

Precision medicine is no longer a future promise — it is becoming a clinical expectation. The next decade of care will be shaped by multimodal data, real-time signals, and new generative AI-driven ways of investigating clinical and scientific questions. But…

For Alexander Khalessi, MD, chief innovation officer at UC San Diego Health, scaling AI in healthcare requires more than enthusiasm. “When you have the ambition to build something without precedent, it’s critical to lean into the combined capabilities, expertise, and…

Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., has identified more than 70 medical conditions that consistently preceded Alzheimer’s disease diagnoses using EHR data from two large patient databases. Researchers analyzed longitudinal EHRs from the MarketScan database of more than 150…