Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Several hospital and health system chief information officers previously worked for EHR vendors, including Epic, Cerner, Meditech and Allscripts. Their vendor experience includes EHR product management, large-scale implementations and IT operations. Here are nine CIOs who previously worked for EHR…

Texas Comptroller Don Huffines has signed an executive order directing his office to eliminate state sales tax on EHRs, patient portals and other healthcare technology used to maintain, access or share medical records. The order tells agency staff to file…

The American Medical Association released a governance framework Oct. 13 for agentic AI that takes on clinical functions. The framework says an AI system’s clinical authority must be earned through evidence and maintained through ongoing performance. The AMA said an…

Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health South Florida has received a $1 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to support its healthcare technology innovation fellowship for another five years. The funding, announced Oct. 13, includes a…

Mark Loftis, a Cushing, Okla.-based chiropractor and medical supply company owner, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for a telemedicine-driven scheme that billed federal health programs more than $30 million for durable medical equipment that beneficiaries did not…

Seventy-four percent of U.S. healthcare organizations that experienced a cyberattack in the past year reported disruptions to patient care, an Oct. 13 report from cybersecurity company Proofpoint and IT security research organization Ponemon Institute found. The fifth annual “Cyber Insecurity…

Healthcare has spent a decade trying to solve the interoperability problem to move patient data cleanly across systems, settings and specialties, and has made uneven progress. For health systems deploying AI at scale, that uneven progress is no longer just…

Democrats on the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs committees are demanding that the Department of Veterans Affairs explain a contract modification that raised the ceiling on its Oracle Health EHR deal by an amount the agency redacted in contracting documents.…

As AI moves deeper into clinical care and back-office operations, a growing number of hospitals and health systems have created a C-suite role to oversee it. Becker’s list of organizations with dedicated AI leadership now includes more than 20, from…

Microsoft’s offer of free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates for U.S. rural hospitals expires Oct. 13, ending a one-year benefit designed to give hospitals more time to transition away from the operating system. The offer provides rural hospitals with free…