Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Judy Faulkner has spent nearly five decades making Epic a fundamental cornerstone of hospital EHR operations. Now, that influence extends well beyond the EHR and delves into some of the biggest questions facing health system leaders: how quickly to deploy…

AI is quickly becoming one of the biggest strains on the U.S. power grid and health systems are not immune to the fallout. As hospitals move AI from pilot programs to enterprise-wide deployment, rising demand, grid constraints and yearslong interconnection…

Dutch authorities have arrested an alleged leader of ShinyHunters, a cybercriminal group that has targeted healthcare organizations and their third-party vendors, the FBI said. The Dutch National Police’s High Tech Crime Unit arrested the suspect under Dutch law with the…

Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health has restored its MyChart patient portal as it recovers from a cybersecurity incident, the health system said in a Sept. 29 update. Patients can again use MyChart, which had been down since Sept. 1, to schedule…

If last quarter’s health IT theme was that the hard part of AI isn’t the technology, this quarter’s was that someone has to pay for it — and hospital CIOs started acting like it. From July through September, the leaders…

OpenAI made three new tools available to ChatGPT for Healthcare customers among more than 20 announcements at its DevDay 2026 event Sept. 29. The first is Dots, which OpenAI describes as always-on agents that learn what matters to users and…

Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Health and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth have received a $20 million gift from Richard “Dick” Levy, PhD, to fund an initiative to shift care from the hospital to patients’ homes. Dr. Levy is a…

Meta will add FDA-cleared hearing aid software to supported AI glasses in the U.S. later this year, the company said at its recent Meta Connect 2026 event. The feature, called Hearing Enhancement, is intended for adults 18 and older with…

AI can perform care represented in 16% to 22% of U.S. outpatient claims, according to an analysis from McKinsey & Co. That work accounts for 13% to 19% of outpatient spending. The Sept. 28 analysis of 2024 commercial, Medicare and…

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare expanded its AI-powered Nurse Handoff tool to 15 additional Florida hospitals in September. The tool, according to a Sept. 25 news release, organizes information from a patient’s EHR into a shift report for the incoming nurse.…