Health IT news and digital transformation trends

For years, the dominant model for health system technology relationships followed a predictable arc. A vendor sold a product, supported an implementation, and largely exited. Whether the tool delivered on its original promise became the health system’s problem to work…

For the past few years, the question of who would eventually lead Epic after its founder seemed to have a likely answer. Sumit Rana, the Verona, Wis.-based EHR vendor’s president and a developer who joined the company in 1998, was…

Hospitals and health systems are consolidating electronic health record platforms as they work to unify patient information and reduce the number of systems operating across their organizations. The projects vary in scope, with some health systems replacing dozens of legacy…

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has embedded OpenEvidence’s AI clinical decision-support platform in its Epic EHR, giving physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other clinicians systemwide access at the point of care. Clinicians have been able to launch OpenEvidence directly from Epic since Oct.…

Making Epic’s Honor Roll comes with more than recognition, and the health systems that disclose their payouts show how widely the amounts vary. Launched in 2017, the EHR vendor’s voluntary Honor Roll Good Maintenance Grant Program provides financial incentives to…

Most health systems adopting AI are layering new tools onto hospitals, workflows and IT platforms built decades earlier. The University of Texas at Austin is trying something few organizations get the chance to do: design an academic medical center around…

Health systems are not running out of AI products to consider. The harder problem is deciding which ones warrant the attention and in what order. The market for AI tools has outpaced the governance structures most organizations built to assess…

Epic has spent the past several years pulling in many of the country’s largest health systems, a disproportionate share of them leaving Oracle Health. Yet a group of big U.S. health systems run Oracle Health as their primary EHR. Investor-owned…

Utah’s experiment with letting AI handle part of a physician’s job grew considerably this month. The state approved what one company calls the nation’s first AI to write new prescriptions, gave two Salt Lake City-based health systems a fast track…

States continue to set their own rules for AI in healthcare, from patient disclosure requirements and limits on AI therapy to guardrails on AI in prior authorization. Lawmakers in 47 states introduced more than 250 bills regulating AI in healthcare…