Health IT news and digital transformation trends

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs selected Abridge to provide ambient AI technology under a nationwide enterprise contract. The multiple-award contract allows VA medical centers and regions to deploy Abridge for clinicians. It has a total ceiling of $775.72 million…

McKesson said unauthorized access and data exfiltration tied to a cybersecurity incident was limited to certain third-party applications affecting a subset of customers within its Oncology & Multispecialty business. The company said in a Sept. 21 update that the incident…

Artificial intelligence carries costs that are visible, growing and increasingly tied to token-level consumption. What it delivers in return is harder to quantify and health system leaders say that gap, more than any technology limitation, is the central challenge of…

The EHR is increasingly becoming the place where health systems encounter, deploy and build artificial intelligence. Recent moves from Epic, Oracle Health and OpenAI, along with deployments at health systems across the country, show AI moving deeper into the systems…

The American Medical Association is urging CMS to maintain its Jan. 1, 2027, electronic prior authorization deadline. CMS broadened prior authorization reform efforts — and built upon payers’ existing commitments — to include providers and EHR vendors. Application programming interface…

Hasan Ahmad, DO, vice president and associate chief medical information officer at Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health, spent years untangling a problem that had nothing to do with AI: interruptive EHR alerts that had piled up for 15 years with…

The fear that AI will hollow out healthcare cybersecurity careers is not one Anahi Santiago shares — but she recently got a close-up look at how the anxiety is landing on the people around her. Ms. Santiago’s executive assistant, who…

Margaret Lozovatsky, MD, chief digital information officer at Dayton, Ohio-based Premier Health, has watched her own job description change out from under her. “Initially, the role of the CMIO or the CNIO was to be at-the-elbow support. Right, we stood…

Amazon is hiring healthcare AI solutions architects, an applied scientist, engineering managers focused on healthcare cybersecurity, and a product manager — the kinds of roles hospital and health system CIOs and chief digital officers are competing for as they build…

Hospital margins have narrowed considerably since the pandemic, but cybersecurity budgets have kept climbing — and health system IT leaders say they are now facing sharper questions from their CFOs about why. The tension is already showing up in the…