Health IT news and digital transformation trends

New York City-based One Brooklyn Health has launched Ready Set Sickle, a virtual reality educational game that teaches patients, families and community members about sickle cell disease. The health system’s Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program developed the game with funding from…

A bipartisan coalition of 26 attorneys general is urging Congress to establish a federal regulatory framework for AI development, citing recent reports of AI agents engaging in unauthorized or potentially harmful activity. New York Attorney General Letitia James led the…

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health is partnering with startup accelerator Tampa Bay Wave to launch a dual-region tech cohort focused on behavioral health and addiction treatment companies. HealthTech|X, run through Vanderbilt Health’s Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation, will give founders…

An AI agent developed by OpenAI gained unauthorized access to an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June, reaching public and nonpublic files. OpenAI said in a statement to Becker’s that the activity occurred as its models attempted to answer…

Some hospitals ask patients to sign a consent form before recording a physician’s visit. They don’t ask before an algorithm reads the patient’s EKG. That inconsistency is at the heart of a fight health leaders still haven’t settled: When, exactly,…

LHC Group, a home health and hospice provider owned by UnitedHealth Group’s Optum, has disclosed a data breach tied to a vishing attack that exposed patient information. LHC Group said it became aware April 7 that an employee may have…

Google will launch an experimental satellite carrying AI chips into orbit Oct. 1. The launch is the first step in Project Suncatcher, the company’s effort to build solar-powered AI data centers in space, The New York Times reported Sept. 24.…

Epic’s Hello World communication platform helped health systems prevent more than 3.4 million patient no-shows nationwide over the past 12 months, and the company has now added a feature that shows patients a branded caller ID before they answer. Hello…

As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everyday hospital operations, health systems are confronting a new question about what happens when the AI disappears or quietly stops working as intended. For CIOs and other technology leaders, the issue is becoming more…

The American health record was not designed with patients in mind. Records are stored by hospital systems, formatted by the EHR vendor each institution uses and largely inaccessible to patients who see multiple providers or cross institutional lines. Larry Ellison,…