Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has built a three-person revenue cycle automation team that processed about 400,000 tasks over the past fiscal year — work the health system estimates is equivalent to roughly 24 full-time employees. Northwestern’s automation team manages about 30…

Home medical equipment provider AdaptHealth disclosed that a June cyberattack exposed personal and health information belonging to more than 4.1 million patients, according to a filing with the HHS Office for Civil Rights. The company said the breach stemmed from…

Labcorp will pay more than $2.28 million to a coalition of 44 attorneys general to resolve a multistate investigation into the 2019 data breach at its former debt-collection vendor, American Medical Collection Agency. The breach occurred at AMCA and potentially…

Interoperability may be the most visible sign of fragmented hospital technology, but health IT leaders say the problem can begin much earlier, with how systems are selected, governed and built into clinical workflows. “The easy answer is interoperability, but that’s…

In the past year-plus, Epic has ended its startup codevelopment program and rolled out its own ambient AI scribe to compete directly with the companies that helped popularize the category in the first place. It’s a live example of the…

Philadelphia-based Temple Health is searching for an executive vice president and chief information and digital officer, expanding the scope of its top IT leadership role to include digital health, artificial intelligence and data strategy. The executive will oversee IT, digital…

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives has elected Zafar Chaudry, MD, as chair of its Board of Trustees for 2027, and added Cleveland Clinic CIO Sarah Hatchett to the board, the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based association said Sept. 23. Dr.…

Epic’s September included a reported pause on most technology development to focus on cybersecurity, new AI deployments and integrations, expanded patient communication capabilities and continued growth across health systems. Here are 11 Epic updates from September:

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health has turned to automation and AI to keep pace with roughly 30% volume growth while reducing the manual workload tied to prior authorization and patient estimates. Ochsner operates 46 hospitals and more than 370 outpatient and…

Hospitals and health systems are building out their AI workforces, with openings spanning AI architecture, governance, engineering, product development and legal strategy. Here are 10 AI-focused positions listed on health system career sites as of Sept. 25: