Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Ten providers, including Advocate Health, Mass General Brigham, Mercy and Intermountain Health, have each used Microsoft’s solutions to document more than 1 million patient encounters since the start of the calendar year, Microsoft chair and CEO Satya Nadella said Oct.…

Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health has restored several software systems following an Oct. 29 disruption that prompted the health system to activate its corporate emergency operations center and implement downtime procedures across its facilities. The disruption began around 9:30 a.m.…

Sixty percent of Americans would be uncomfortable with their doctor using AI in healthcare for diagnoses and treatments, and most don’t want AI working without human oversight, an Oct. 29 Pew Research Center report found. That is double the 30%…

The promise of precision genomics — care personalized to a patient’s genetic profile — is becoming a reality. According to an HHS analysis, Medicare Part B paid for 18 million genetic tests in 2024, a 160% increase from 2018, and…

AI platform now optimizes financial decision-making across health systems representing more than $100 billion in annual operating expenses and 250 hospitals SAN FRANCISCO – October 29, 2026 – Midstream Health, the autonomous financial operations platform for health systems, today announced…

The American Medical Association released a framework Oct. 29 for assigning liability when clinical AI harms patients, aligning responsibility with each party’s authority and ability to prevent or mitigate harm. The AMA Center for Digital Health and AI said existing…

As AI takes on more clinical tasks, health systems are introducing safeguards to preserve physicians’ independent judgment and prevent clinical skills from deteriorating, even as leaders acknowledge they have yet to determine how to measure AI’s long-term effects on competency.…

Cleveland-based University Hospitals is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging it failed to protect patient information during an October cybersecurity incident that disrupted its MyChart patient portal and other digital services. The lawsuit, filed Oct. 28 in the U.S. District…

Health systems have spent heavily on AI, automation and EHR tools on the expectation that the investments would pay off. A growing number are now attaching dollar figures to what came back. Those figures don’t all measure the same thing.…

Larry Ellison’s case against the modern EHR starts with a broken leg. During his Oct. 27 keynote at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas, the Oracle co-founder, executive chair and chief technology officer pitched Oracle Health’s AI-based software to hospitals…