Health IT news and digital transformation trends

A large Baltimore-area health system with an Oracle Health EHR has deployed the company’s cloud-based patient access platform to modernize its contact center operations. “Historically, health systems supported these workflows using on-premises infrastructure sized for peak demand,” a Feb. 18…

Two health systems are working with Amazon Web Services to uncover rare diseases with the help of AI. After receiving $1 million from AWS for research, Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital developed AI technology to analyze smartphone camera images to…

Specialized FBI teams are onsite at University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson as the organization continues to respond to a cyberattack that began Feb. 19. In a Facebook post, the organization said its medical teams and federal authorities are…

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine has implemented a virtual care initiative that removes after-hours call responsibilities for primary care providers. As of January, 63 Penn Medicine practices across the Philadelphia area, Chester County and Central New Jersey have adopted the systemwide coverage…

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s digital care transformation model is designed asan enterprise strategic initiative — not simply an extension of ambulatory telehealth,Jess Boyle, senior director of digital care transformation and digital health at thehealth system, told Becker’s. The model is built…

New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine has launched an institutionwide initiative to support the safe and effective use of AI across its research, clinical care and education departments. The AI to Advance Medicine program includes a dean’s lecture series, a…

Health systems are increasingly turning to managed IT services firms to relieve internal IT teams of maintenance work, but execution failures remain a primary reason contracts are terminated, a Feb. 20 report from KLAS Research found. The report, based on…

The American Hospital Association is suggesting that hospitals and health systems consider deploying “zero trust” architecture to improve their cybersecurity. The National Security Agency recently released implementation guidelines for zero trust, a strategy that assumes no users or devices are…

Nearly 90% of healthcare organizations say they must modernize operations to keep pace with mounting clinical, regulatory and financial pressures, according to a new survey of healthcare technology leaders. The 2026 Leadership Pulse Survey from the College of Healthcare Information…

Providence, R.I.-based Care New England has partnered with Rhode Island College in Providence to create a pipeline of digitally educated, EHR-trained nurses and healthcare administrators, Tomas Gregorio, chief digital information officer of the health system, told Becker’s. The partnership, announced…