Evansville, Ind.-based Deaconess Health System has added a tool to its MyChart patient portal that allows users to register as organ, eye and tissue donors. The update has led more than 1,000 patients to sign up since August. The tool…

The Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at St. Louis-based Washington University School of Medicine has established the Center for Computational and AI-enabled Imaging Sciences to advance precision diagnosis and treatment through medical imaging. The center will unite collaborators from across WashU…

At Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Health System, Chief Nursing Executive Theresa McDonnell, DNP, RN, believes healthcare’s digital transformation must begin with one guiding principle: “Technology should care for the people who care for patients.” As health systems navigate staffing shortages…

Chattanooga, Tenn.-based CHI Memorial is changing its name to CommonSpirit Health to align with its parent health system, the Chattanooga Free Press reported. The three-hospital system will begin altering its logo and signage to that of Chicago-based CommonSpirit in the…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has introduced a program to help other health systems adopt AI. Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights provides a “guided, affordable path” for healthcare organizations of all sizes to keep up with advances in the technology, the health system…

Health systems might think they’re designing digital tools for Gen Z and millennials when, in fact, it’s their parents or grandparents who are more likely to use them. At least that’s been the case at Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System,…

Portland, Maine-based MaineHealth sent letters to 531 patients indicating they were dead. They were very much alive. The nine-hospital system said an error in its computer system Oct. 20 caused the estate vendor letters to be generated and mailed to…

New York City-based NYU Langone Health has launched an EHR feature designed to help clinicians see patients as individuals, not just medical cases. The initiative, called “About Me,” invites patients to share personal details that appear directly in the health…

Three health systems have apparently been ensnared in a 2024 hack of EHR vendor Veradigm, formerly known as Allscripts, DataBreaches.net reported. In the December data breach, a cybercriminal used a credential obtained from a Veradigm customer to enter a Veradigm…

Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner didn’t get an MBA — and she said the EHR giant wouldn’t look the same if she had. “If I had gotten an MBA, they would likely have taught me how to get venture…