Health IT news and digital transformation trends

The Austin, Texas-based University of Texas System is expanding access to Abridge’s AI-powered clinical documentation and clinician intelligence platform through a new enterprisewide agreement. The agreement, according to an Oct. 8 news release from Abridge, establishes a systemwide framework for…

Agents and AI are on every vendor’s banner these days, Availity’s Sean Barrett observed — yet getting payer data into the workflows those agents run remains the hard part. During a featured session sponsored by Availity at Becker’s 11th Annual…

Verona, Wis.-based Epic has received FDA clearance for Deterioration Index Version 2, an updated version of its EHR-embedded tool that flags hospitalized patients at risk of clinical decline. The FDA cleared the software in September through the 510(k) pathway. The…

Health systems are stretched thin. Budgets are tight, turnover is high, and workflow changes arrive faster than education teams can keep up. Yet many training programs still rely on approaches built for a different era: time-intensive, expensive to maintain, and…

Epic is accelerating its push to embed AI and shape the broader healthcare data ecosystem in 2026, rolling out new tools, weighing in on federal AI policy and taking legal action tied to national interoperability networks. From new AI tools…

Biohub, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health and technology companies announced an expansion of an international effort to generate open biological datasets for predictive AI models. The effort represents $1.8 billion in funding, data, computing resources…

U.S. Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., have proposed the AI Agent Accountability Act, a bipartisan bill that would make AI agent operators and developers criminally and civilly liable when their agents hack computer systems. Here are five…

Epic has spent the past several years pulling in many of the country’s largest health systems, with a large share of them leaving Oracle Health. Four more large systems, Adventist Health, Avera Health, ChristianaCare and Kaleida Health, went live on…

Oklahoma City-based OU Health has fired an employee who accessed 854 patients’ records without a legitimate business reason for about five months. The health system became aware of the employee’s unusual pattern of accessing patient information around June 7 and…

Health systems are learning that AI costs don’t end at deployment.  Mayo Clinic’s chief AI implementation officer told Becker’s in August that the cost of maintaining AI systems has been “far higher” than expected. For some of the most experimental…