Health IT news and digital transformation trends

HCA Healthcare now has 72 hospitals across the U.S. and U.K. running on Meditech Expanse as the health system continues a multiyear EHR rollout. The latest implementation brought 34 hospitals in HCA’s Capital and North Florida divisions onto the platform,…

At the opening keynote of Becker’s 11th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference in Chicago, two health system technology leaders set up the argument that would carry through the rest of the week: The hardest problems facing…

Oracle Health has launched a clinical AI agent for nurses that is embedded into its EHR, which includes voice-enabled charting, search and acute nursing summaries.  About two years ago, Oracle released a clinical AI agent for physicians. Since then, the…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay Sept. 12 calling for a deliberate slowdown in AI capability development, a position that carries direct implications for health systems that have already deployed Claude or are evaluating AI platforms for clinical and…

For health system IT leaders, deciding whether to fire a vendor rarely comes down to reading a service-level agreement dashboard. It comes down to a harder question: whether the relationship, as it stands today, is one they would enter into…

HHS wants an AI agent that can act as a round-the-clock member of a heart failure patient’s care team, managing care between visits and escalating to a clinician only when needed. On Sept. 9, the department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency…

Last summer, President Donald Trump stood at the White House and promised healthcare providers would soon be able to “kill the clipboard” — no more having patients fill out the same paperwork at every appointment, no more chasing down records…

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects an estimated 37 million U.S. adults — more than 1 in 10 — making it one of the most common chronic conditions in the country. But access to nephrology care is uneven. Patients in major…

A Ukrainian national who helped deploy Conti ransomware against more than 1,000 victims worldwide has been sentenced to four years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, 44, formerly of Cork, Ireland, admitted to joining the…

Ambient AI gained much of its early traction in healthcare as a documentation tool for physicians. Now, a growing number of health systems are testing whether the technology can do something similar for nurses. Recent pilots and rollouts at Mercy,…