Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Nearly half of respondents asked about AI across 13 countries said people without formal medical training who know how to use AI could perform at least one health-related task as well as or better than a trained healthcare professional, according…

Oracle Health spent the first half of 2026 accelerating its push to remake healthcare technology through AI, expanding its footprint across the Department of Veterans Affairs and introducing new interoperability tools, even as the company cut hundreds of jobs tied…

Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., reintroduced legislation that would establish minimum federal cybersecurity standards for healthcare organizations and provide $1.3 billion to help hospitals strengthen their defenses. The senators reintroduced the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act,…

Clara Lin, MD, vice president and chief medical information officer at Seattle Children’s, doesn’t have a shortage of AI tools to consider. She has the opposite problem. “Epic is coming out with like 100, 200, 300 … just so many…

“I’m a poor career planner,” Geoff Patterson said — not exactly the sentence you’d expect from an executive at one of the nation’s largest health systems. Mr. Patterson, senior vice president and chief digital and information officer of Detroit-based Henry…

The pipeline of AI tools seeking a foothold inside health systems has never been longer or faster-moving. For CIOs and CMIOs, the hardest question is no longer whether to pilot new technology, but how to know when a pilot has…

OpenAI and Anthropic are among the corporate sponsors of an upcoming summit organized by the MAHA Center, a nonprofit promoting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement, Politico reported. The Sept. 29 event is also sponsored…

President Donald Trump says he is forming an “AI Force” to oversee the AI industry and will soon name an AI “czar,” modeling the initiative on the Space Force he created during his first term. In a Sept. 19 Truth…

For some health systems, moving to Epic is becoming as much an application-consolidation project as an EHR project. Recent Becker’s reporting shows health systems using Epic implementations and optimization efforts to retire dozens or even hundreds of legacy and third-party…

Most people think telemedicine is a pandemic-era invention. The truth is more interesting, and more instructive for where we need to go next. The story begins not in a hospital, but in outer space. Where Telemedicine Originated In 1960, NASA…