Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Recent cybersecurity warnings and incidents are highlighting risks for healthcare organizations that extend beyond ransomware, including cloud authorization abuse, voice phishing, brand impersonation, third-party access and publicly exposed information. Here are five recent cybersecurity developments Becker’s has reported on in…

Technology companies are continuing to expand their healthcare footprint through artificial intelligence, EHR integrations, cybersecurity initiatives and new clinical uses. Here are five Big Tech healthcare developments Becker’s has reported on in September:

Health systems have spent the past few years piloting AI across nearly every department, but translating that activity into hard financial numbers has proven elusive for many. An April report from healthcare automation company Qventus found that while 42% of…

Hospitals and health systems have kept swapping EHR vendors throughout 2026. Epic continues to add major health systems and community hospitals to its customer base, while Oracle Health’s marquee project involves one very large, very expensive customer: the federal government.…

Anthropic has blocked multiple accounts after users tapped its Claude AI models for biological research that could potentially support the development of biological weapons, CNN reported Sept. 10. The AI company outlined five cases in a Sept. 10 threat intelligence…

A Clark County (Wash.) Superior Court judge has ruled that patients don’t have a legal right to access ambient AI recordings physicians use to draft clinical notes, siding with The Vancouver (Wash.) Clinic in one of the first rulings nationwide…

Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health’s phone system and MyChart patient portal remain unavailable as the health system continues responding to a cybersecurity incident involving an unauthorized criminal actor. In a Sept. 10 update, Luminis Health said its investigation is ongoing and…

Houston-based Nutex Health says the hackers behind its August cyberattack have published the data they allegedly stole on their own website. The publicly traded micro-hospital operator is now downloading, processing and analyzing that data to determine its contents, scope and…

The pressure on health system leaders to move quickly on artificial intelligence has rarely been more acute. Vendor pipelines are full, board-level expectations are rising and new tools arrive weekly. Liz Popwell, system vice president of strategy and international at…

St. Louis-based Ascension scaled a digital outreach campaign to 179,711 unique patients across 12 states, resulting in 73,253 preventive care appointments scheduled within 14 days of initial outreach. The campaign prompts patients to schedule annual wellness visits and is featured…