Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Ujjwal Ratan has joined UnitedHealth Group’s consulting and analytics division, Optum Insight, as chief AI officer. In a Sept. 10 LinkedIn post, Mr. Ratan said his role is to enable Optum Insight to operate as a connected agentic network in…

EHR decisions rarely happen in isolation. They reflect broader shifts in strategy, finances, clinical alignment and digital ambition. Hospitals and health systems are increasingly announcing EHR changes, from first-time enterprise implementations to large-scale migrations spanning multiple hospitals, physician groups and…

Apple has unveiled Apple Watch Series 12, introducing a new Health Sensing System the company says delivers the most accurate heart rate sensing of any wearable device. The tech giant built the feature around new optical and electrical heart sensors…

The American Heart Association’s PREVENT cardiovascular risk equations is now integrated into Epic’s EHR platform. The integration brings the cardiovascular risk assessment tool into clinicians’ existing workflows, where it can be used to estimate patients’ risk for heart attack, stroke…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is licensing its internally developed workforce forecasting technology to Trusted Health, which plans to make the tool available to other hospitals and health systems. Mayo’s CareCast technology uses historical staffing information, patient volume trends and operational…

As health systems push artificial intelligence from pilots into everyday operations, a new type of engineer is moving closer to the clinical front lines. OpenAI and Microsoft are hiring forward-deployed engineers specifically for healthcare work, while Chicago-based Rush University Medical…

EHR migrations have become one of the defining capital projects of the year for hospitals and health systems, with price tags ranging from a few million dollars for a single critical access hospital to well over a billion for the…

Fort Stockton, Texas-based Pecos County Memorial Hospital District is moving to Meditech Expanse as its unified EHR platform. The critical access hospital will deploy the EHR through Meditech as a Service, the company’s cloud-based offering, according to a Sept. 10…

Boston Scientific has fully restored manufacturing, order fulfillment and shipping operations following the cybersecurity event it first identified Aug. 25. The medical device maker said products are now moving through its distribution network at or above normal levels. The company…

The FBI has issued a public service announcement warning of a cyberattack technique called “OAuth consent phishing” that lets hackers access victims’ accounts without stealing a password. The scheme has been active since late 2025 and targets prominent individuals, their…