Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Epic is patching security flaws that could allow undetected access to patient records after testing its software with Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI model, The New York Times reported. The EHR giant found that certain software configurations could let someone view…

Researchers at Stanford (Calif.) Medicine are receiving up to $14.9 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to build a monitoring system for autonomous AI agents used in cardiovascular care. The project, called STEWARD, short for safety, trust,…

Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has established the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Institute for Evidence, Innovation and Policy. The institute expands BIDMC’s Smith Center for Outcomes Research into a multidisciplinary research enterprise made up of several centers.…

The American Hospital Association is urging Congress to address cybersecurity gaps involving AI vendors and other third parties that handle patient information, warning that hospitals cannot defend against threats across the healthcare sector alone. In a Sept. 30 statement submitted…

Burlington-based University of Vermont has received a research and development contract worth up to $38 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to build AI-powered digital twins that help clinicians personalize treatment for critically ill patients. The contract…

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said AI can provide patients with a better-informed second opinion than any physician in the country, The New York Times reported Sept. 29. Speaking alongside Vice President JD Vance at the MAHA Summit in…

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has given labor half the seats on a new AI Task Force with direct decision-making authority over technology investments, under a 2025 agreement with the Alliance of Health Care Unions detailed in a report by Cambridge,…

Oracle Health spent September unveiling AI tools for cancer care, revenue cycle and nursing, even as Congress moved to force Oracle’s top executives to testify about the VA’s EHR contract and Oracle added $700 million to its restructuring plan. Here…

Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health identified unauthorized access to information associated with certain Southern Indiana patients’ radiology files following a vendor security incident. IU Health learned Aug. 4 that its IT vendor, AME Group, may have been susceptible to a previously…

Baptist Health Central Alabama said a third-party vendor’s server outage disrupted its IT systems, according to a Sept. 29 Facebook post. The health system said all three of its hospitals remained open, with clinical teams using downtime procedures to support…