Health IT news and digital transformation trends

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,…

The financial pressure on American health systems has rarely been more acute. Providers are absorbing Medicaid cuts, margin compression and the compounding difficulty of competing for labor and reimbursement simultaneously. Larry Ellison, executive chairman and co-founder of Oracle, argues the…

Nearly two-thirds of hospital nursing professionals surveyed by Black Book Research said they feel individually watched or behaviorally tracked by AI or algorithmic systems used in their workplaces. The findings come from Black Book Research’s State of AI in Hospital…

Mass General Brigham’s AI intake tool gets patients to a physician the same day. Its CFO is fine losing money on a third of its AI spending. And not one executive Becker’s spoke with over two days at the Somerville,…

Health systems are not the only groups pushing back against a CMS proposal to restrict remote patient monitoring. In July, CMS pitched banning Medicare payments for remote patient monitoring services carried out by third-party companies. As proposed, starting Jan. 1,…