Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Richa Gupta, MBBS, has been named vice president of care transformation at AI scribe startup Ambience Healthcare. Dr. Gupta previously served as medical group COO at Chicago-based Rush University System for Health, where she worked for over 13 years. Before…

Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy’s new chief product officer, Lina Scroggins, is stepping into healthcare with a goal familiar to any Google user: Make complex systems feel simple. After nearly two decades at Google, Ms. Scroggins joined Mercy this February to help…

Lufkin, Texas-based St. Luke’s Memorial Hospital launched a virtually integrated care program Feb. 9 to enhance bedside support with 24/7 remote nursing, ABC affiliate KLTV reported. The program aims to enable virtual nurses to assist with administrative tasks, patient education…

AI can’t distinguish between true and false medical claims once they’re packaged as realistic-looking hospital notes or social-media health discussions, researchers from New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System found. The study authors analyzed over 1 million prompts across nine…

Western Missouri Medical Center in Warrensburg, has selected Meditech’s cloud-based EHR platform to unify care delivery across its hospital and 19 affiliated clinics. The platform will support clinical, administrative and revenue cycle functions under a single system, replacing the hospital’s…

Wearables and other digital health solutions are associated with physical activity gains in stroke survivors, the American Journal of Managed Care reported. The tech tools weren’t as effective with weight management of poststroke patients, according to the meta-review by Cleveland…

For many hospital and health system executives, the CIO role has shifted over the last several years. Technology leaders are no longer evaluated primarily on uptime, cybersecurity or project delivery; they are increasingly expected to demonstrate how digital strategy contributes…

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital plans to host a ribbon-cutting Feb. 11 to celebrate the grand opening of its new 32,000-square-foot innovation center. The facility, located in the city’s Ybor City neighborhood, will house the health system’s innovation, IT and analytics…

An AI framework developed by Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University identified statin intolerance, contraindications and patient deferrals documented in clinical notes for 10% of adult patients. Researchers processed 197,761 clinical notes from 47,192 adult patients using a three-part framework that included…

A large study examining the use of AI chatbots for medical advice found that people using large language models did not make better health decisions than those relying on traditional sources and may be exposed to inaccurate and inconsistent guidance.…