Health IT news and digital transformation trends

A bipartisan group of 32 House members is urging CMS to reconsider its proposed remote patient monitoring restrictions in the 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The Oct. 2 letter to CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, was led by Reps. David…

A simpler, more cost-effective way to improve accountability, identify potential diversion, and gain real-time oversight—without replacing your existing narcotic cabinets. For many ambulatory surgery centers, controlled substance documentation still relies on a process that has changed very little in decades:…

Pittsburgh-based UPMC completed the second wave of its Epic EHR rollout this month, bringing 15 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory practices onto the platform. “This past weekend marked the transition for our Pittsburgh region and most of Southwestern Pennsylvania,” Chris…

HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT awarded a total of $1.5 million to MedStar Health Research Institute and Indianapolis-based Regenstrief Institute for projects focused on agentic AI in clinical care and laboratory interoperability. The awards are part…

Oracle Health’s 2025 data breach compromised personal information belonging to 19.9 million people, according to filings with the Texas attorney general obtained by Becker’s through a public records request. Bloomberg first reported the nearly 20 million figure Oct. 5. The…

Patients at Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health are linking their medical records to ChatGPT at a rapidly accelerating pace, and the health system is footing part of the bill for a connection it never turned on. The number of patients at…

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has cut its EHR count from 19 to nine over the past 24 months as it moves toward a single Epic instance by the end of fiscal 2030, CFO Michael Browning said during the system’s fiscal 2026…

Vail (Colo.) Health rolled out Epic on Oct. 3, bringing records from its providers and services into a shared EHR system. Vail Health partnered with UCHealth through the Epic Community Connect program to bring the EHR to its rural mountain…

Leadership changes reported by Becker’s in 2026 show some health systems adding digital oversight, data analytics and hospital administration to CIO portfolios, while one search explicitly assigns AI governance to the next IT leader. The changes take different forms. Some…

Utah has approved a pilot that lets AI from Nolla Health issue initial acne prescriptions without a physician visit. The company says it is the first organization in the U.S. cleared for AI to write new prescriptions. The state has…