Health IT news and digital transformation trends

The American Joint Replacement Registry became the first registry to accept patient data through Epic’s Community Registries framework, allowing participating hospitals to automate the submission of joint replacement data. Carbondale-based Southern Illinois Healthcare is the first health system to use…

UC San Diego Health is working with Harvard Medical School and Anthropic to develop an open-source oversight system designed to check the safety of medical recommendations made by patient-facing AI.  The collaboration is part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency…

Dozens of hospitals have had their patient data compromised by a 2025 breach of Oracle Health’s legacy Cerner systems. Health systems continue to alert patients of the hack that occurred as early as Jan. 22, 2025. Oracle Health asked healthcare…

Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth is making OpenEvidence available to clinical teams across the health system through existing EHR workflows beginning Oct. 1. Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, care managers, therapists and other clinical roles will have access to the resource, which helps…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Sept. 30 establishing new safeguards for clinical judgment and addressing bias in AI tools used in healthcare. The measures are part of a broader package of AI laws protecting workers and consumers. The healthcare…

Meditech’s Traverse Exchange network connects more than 800 facilities across 200 organizations, providing access to health information for more than 43 million patients nationwide. The interoperability network spans 45 states and U.S. territories and has facilitated the exchange of more…

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham has formally launched The Cooperative, an initiative building healthcarewide models to protect patients from extreme heat and poor air quality. The health system unveiled the initiative Sept. 22 at The Cooperative’s first Innovation Forum. The…

OpenAI and Anthropic are among the artificial intelligence companies facing a Federal Trade Commission investigation into potential risks associated with their products, CNBC reported Sept. 30, citing an agency spokesperson. The spokesperson declined to identify the other companies under investigation.…

Ambient AI can help clinicians complete notes, but health systems are also looking for evidence that better documentation improves coding, revenue cycle performance and clinician capacity. In a featured session sponsored by Nabla at Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue…

The Pennsylvania House has passed a bill that would require hospitals, clinicians and payers to disclose how they use AI and would keep humans responsible for final patient care decisions. The bill passed 144-59, with 41 Republicans joining all Democrats…