California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Sept. 18 directing state agencies to accelerate implementation of the state’s new AI oversight laws and to explore requiring frontier AI developers to build an emergency shutoff, or “kill switch,” into their…

Two health system CIOs say the traditional enterprise IT model is changing as AI reshapes technology work and more tech expertise spreads across healthcare organizations. For Will Landry, senior vice president and CIO of Baton Rouge, La. -based FMOL Health,…

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine has launched⁠ a multiyear initiative to bring Lancaster (Pa.) General Health and affiliated entities onto its shared electronic health record platform. The PennChart Integration & Expansion Program, or PIE, will move Lancaster General Health and its affiliated…

Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health has restored MyChart in read-only mode as it continues recovering from a cybersecurity incident that began Sept. 1. Patients can now view their health information in the portal, though scheduling and messaging features remain unavailable. The…

Eight years ago, Michigan Medicine’s head of pathology walked into the CIO’s office with a number that reframed the hospital’s entire technology budget conversation: The department alone would need 11 petabytes of storage to run digital pathology at scale, at…

Techstars and the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group selected nine startups for a healthcare accelerator focused on emerging technologies and care delivery. More than 1,200 startups applied for the 2026 Techstars Healthcare Accelerator powered by Permanente Medicine Mid-Atlantic States, according to…

Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center Health Network is in the middle of an Epic EHR implementation that’s expected to do more than unify patient records — it will eliminate 88 separate software applications the health system has accumulated over years…

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health is requiring executive sponsors to commit to funding successful artificial intelligence pilots before the health system evaluates launching them. “We’re not evaluating launching a pilot unless the executive sponsor commits to paying for it if…

Health systems are pushing more care into patients’ homes. At the same time, several systems in 2026 have closed, suspended or reduced services across the broader home-based care landscape. While some health systems have launched and expanded hospital-at-home programs this…

More than 230 healthcare organizations, including 35 health systems, are urging CMS not to finalize proposed 2027 restrictions on remote patient monitoring. The Sept. 14 sign-on letter, organized by the Alliance for Connected Care, represents an expansion from an earlier…