Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Health Care System has successfully launched Epic across its entire organization, completing a roughly $160 million EHR transition. Sarasota Memorial said in an Oct. 4 Facebook post that the systemwide launch included First Physicians Group offices, outpatient…

Montage Health and Southwest General began with modest patient access workflows: scheduling, registration and appointment reminders. As the results accumulated, the challenge shifted from demonstrating whether automation worked to deciding what to build next and how to scale without creating…

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health is pivoting from urgent care to virtual care in South Carolina, The Post and Courier. Novant is selling 36 of its South Carolina urgent care centers to Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health. The deal is expected to…

Amazon Web Services awarded more than $1.8 million in cash and cloud computing credits to 11 organizations, including five children’s hospitals, through its 2026 AWS Imagine Grant Children’s Health Innovation Award, the company said Oct. 5. Recipients also get technical…

Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner’s wealth has expanded exponentially since she started the EHR company in a Wisconsin basement apartment in the late 1970s. Ms. Faulkner has built Epic into an industry powerhouse since its humble beginnings. The company…

Michael Browning, senior executive vice president and CFO of Chicago-based CommonSpirit, said during the system’s fiscal year 2026 investor call Oct. 2 that the system has “captured $200 million in financial value from artificial intelligence.”  Mr. Browning said the system…

Health system technology leaders are heading into 2027 focused less on adding more technology and more on proving it can meaningfully change how healthcare works. Three health system IT leaders who spoke with Becker’s described different priorities for 2027, but…

President Donald Trump has formed the Super Intelligence Force, a new federal body that will coordinate the government’s strategy for AI, which the administration now refers to as “super Intelligence.” President Trump announced the group Oct. 4 in a post…

Epic has put cybersecurity increasingly at the center of its strategy in 2026, from deploying advanced AI against its own software to pushing faster patching and scrutinizing access to patient records through national data exchanges. The focus intensified in recent…

For many clinicians, the ambient scribe has become the first artificial intelligence tool to deliver immediate, tangible benefit. Some even call it “a lifesaver.” It listens during the patient encounter, creates a draft note and reduces the time clinicians spend…