While Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Health Care System plans to spend $160 million on a new Epic EHR over the next five years, the return on investment will include improved workflow efficiency, patient safety and clinician experience, the organization’s CIO told…

Hospital and health system CIOs are facing a fast-growing list of challenges — from the rapid rise of agentic AI to unrelenting cyberthreats and soaring technology costs — that are reshaping how they think about the future of healthcare IT.…

Ascension, based in St. Louis, is adding telehealth services for maternal health at two of its Florida hospitals. The telehealth maternity care program launched at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola and Jacksonville-based Ascension St. Vincent’s. Developed in partnership with the Florida…

How AI and Wi-Fi 7 are reshaping healthcare connectivity In modern healthcare, wireless connectivity is no longer just infrastructure. It’s become an enabler of care. From real-time telemetry to mobile EHR access and remote consultations, a robust wireless foundation is…

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Heritage Medical Associates will link their EHR systems beginning Nov. 1 in a move designed to streamline care for patients shared between the two organizations. Under the agreement, Heritage will join Vanderbilt’s Epic…

New Haven, Conn.-based Yale School of Medicine’s department of pathology has developed an artificial intelligence tool that checks pathology reports against patient medical records to identify potential discrepancies. The tool, recently launched on a trial basis, cross-references pathology reports with…

In an era when nearly every hospital wants to be seen as innovative, a small but growing number of health systems are taking that ambition further — becoming the first to pilot emerging technologies and forge novel partnerships aimed at…

Hospitals are racing to integrate AI into daily care, but some nursing leaders worry the pace is outstripping the profession’s ability to understand the technology. At Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer Marc Benoy, BSN, RN, sees that…

In the race to modernize healthcare technology, hospitals are learning an old lesson in a new way: Clean their plate before reaching for dessert. For Becket Mahnke, MD, chief medical information officer at Wenatchee, Wash.-based Confluence Health, that mantra is…

Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health said some of its patients were affected by a cybersecurity incident involving Oracle Health, the EHR vendor formerly known as Cerner. Oracle Health notified LifeBridge in March that an unauthorized third party had gained access to its…