Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Before Margaret Lozovatsky, MD, took over as chief digital information officer of Dayton, Ohio-based Premier Health earlier this year, she raised something with her CEO before she agreed to the role: She wanted to keep practicing medicine. Dr. Lozovatsky is…

The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs has signed and served subpoenas compelling Oracle executive chair Larry Ellison and co-CEO Mike Sicilia to testify about the company’s $27 billion VA EHR contract. The committee voted 19-0 to force the testimony after…

The hospitals on the U.S. News & World Report pediatric Honor Roll rarely change. Neither, it turns out, do the people running their IT departments — eight of the 11 CIOs here have held their current title since at least…

Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health has restored telephone service across all of its locations as the health system continues recovering systems affected by a cybersecurity incident. The health system said in a Sept. 16 update that patients can again call physician…

OpenAI has disclosed six instances of unexpected or concerning artificial intelligence model behavior as part of a new framework for tracking, investigating and publicly reporting model misalignment. The company outlined the framework in a Sept. 16 post, saying it is…

Day 3 of Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle Conference included sessions that cut through the noise around AI and focused on what is changing — in revenue cycle operations, IT investment strategy, workforce development, and the design of…

At a Sept. 16 panel at Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle Conference, three health system technology leaders were asked to share an example of a project’s specific ROI. Chif Umejei, CIO at New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian, answered with…

A Sept. 16 panel at Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle Conference included a semantic argument that is becoming more substantive as artificial intelligence evolves: whether “AI” is a sufficient description anymore. Brian Hasselfeld, MD, executive medical director of…

Most health systems have a story about an AI pilot that never went anywhere. The tool was promising. The vendor was convincing. The proof of concept checked out. And then — nothing. The project lingered, the costs accumulated, and the…

No-shows are one of the most predictable sources of revenue loss in healthcare, and one of the most preventable. Yet most practices still treat them as an unavoidable cost of doing business rather than a solvable operational problem. The numbers…