Health IT news and digital transformation trends

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD, R-La., has released a discussion draft of the PATIENT AI Act, proposing to clarify whether the FDA or ONC oversees healthcare AI tools and to create a federal payment pathway for AI-based services. The Protecting…

Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network paid $800,000 to settle a federal investigation into a 2023 ransomware attack that exposed the protected health information of nearly 250,000 individuals, including sensitive photographs of cancer patients. The HHS Office for Civil Rights…

Epic said it will continue providing health system customers with AI transparency documentation and evaluation tools despite a recent federal rule eliminating certain disclosure requirements for certified electronic health records. In an Oct. 30 LinkedIn post, the EHR vendor said…

The pressure on health system executives to move fast on artificial intelligence has rarely been more acute. Vendor pipelines are full, board expectations are rising, and the fear of falling behind is real. Chris Carmody, recently named CIO of Pittsburgh-based…

For all the investment in portals, apps and online scheduling, most patients still pick up the phone. Abandoned calls and long holds rarely show up on a dashboard, but they surface later as unbooked appointments, overtime and patients who take…

Health systems are adding chief AI officers, AI governance committees and machine learning teams. At the same time, a set of older IT jobs is winding down, as cloud and enterprise platforms take hold alongside AI. Those fading roles tend…

Epic has said more than 85% of its customers now use its AI tools, which sit inside the EHR their clinicians and billers work in every day. What those tools will cost a health system next year is getting harder…

Hospitals and health systems are recruiting AI leaders, engineers and specialists to oversee AI adoption, develop new tools and integrate the technology into clinical and operational workflows. The openings range from AI product development and workforce training to enterprise governance…

Oracle Health spent October pitching its AI to hospitals that run Epic’s EHR, even as two large health systems moved hospitals from its EHR to Epic’s and the count of people affected by its 2025 data breach rose to nearly…

Ten providers, including Advocate Health, Mass General Brigham, Mercy and Intermountain Health, have each used Microsoft’s solutions to document more than 1 million patient encounters since the start of the calendar year, Microsoft chair and CEO Satya Nadella said Oct.…