Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Oracle unveiled its Oracle Health Oncology EHR at the Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit in Orlando, Fla. The cancer-specific EHR is built on the company’s AI-powered ambulatory EHR. The system brings together oncology workflows, AI-driven clinical intelligence drawn from…

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham is spending more on AI than it’s getting back in a straightforward financial sense — and its CFO said that’s by design, not an oversight. Asked whether AI is currently a cost drain, a long-term…

Epic said its technology roadmap remains unchanged after CEO and founder Judy Faulkner disclosed the EHR vendor had paused most technology development to focus on cybersecurity. Ms. Faulkner told attendees at Modern Healthcare’s Leadership Summit that the pause involves hundreds…

Fresenius Medical Care is investigating a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to a limited number of its internal systems.  The incident has not affected the company’s medical devices, patient care, manufacturing operations or business continuity, according to a Sept. 22…

About 95% of healthcare providers and payers rank software and digital technology among their five highest strategic priorities, with most expecting to increase spending, according to research from Bain & Company and KLAS Research published Sept. 23. The findings come…

Austin, Texas-based Oracle has expanded Oracle Life Sciences Data Intelligence, combining real-world data, domain-trained AI and advanced analytics in a single platform for pharmaceutical research teams, the company said Sept. 23. The platform, formerly known as Oracle Life Sciences AI…

New York City-based Tennr, a patient orchestration platform that has raised $162 million in venture funding, hired John Capaldi as chief revenue officer and added two enterprise sales executives to scale its go-to-market organization. Mr. Capaldi brings more than 25…

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham has spent the past three years building out how it governs AI, and the system’s technology chief said the arrival of agentic AI — tools capable of acting rather than just generating text — is…

Hershey, Pa.-based Penn State Health will launch Epic across the health system Oct. 31, moving to a unified EHR and billing system. The transition will also introduce Epic’s MyChart patient portal, replacing five separate patient portals with a single platform,…

Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health set out to give its clinicians back 10 million hours by 2028, a systemwide commitment to strip administrative work out of medical — and now nursing — practice. One year in, the system has banked a little…