Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Health systems are spending more on artificial intelligence than ever before. The tools are more capable, the vendor pipelines are fuller and the board-level pressure to move has rarely been more intense. Yet across organizations, roles and geographies, the leaders…

Healthcare’s interoperability problem has never really been about whether data exists. It’s about whether the right application can reach it, act on it, and hand off the result without a human stitching the pieces together by hand. That is the…

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has awarded contracts to six teams to build the first FDA-authorized agentic AI system for cardiovascular care. ARPA-H announced the selections Sept. 9 under its Agentic AI-EnableD CardioVascular CAre TransfOrmation, or ADVOCATE, program.…

As health systems expand their use of artificial intelligence, some are asking a more fundamental question about vendor access to healthcare data: Does the data need to leave the health system at all? That is the approach Palo Alto, Calif.-based…

Health-ISAC has issued a threat bulletin warning that the ShinyHunters cybercrime group is running targeted voice phishing (aka vishing) campaigns and registering medical-themed impersonation domains to breach health sector organizations. The nonprofit cybersecurity information-sharing group said Sept. 3 it has…

Every year, publicly traded healthcare companies disclose what their top five highest-paid executives made — but the CIO or tech chief typically doesn’t make that list. Under SEC rules, a public company’s proxy statement has to name its CEO, its…

The FTC has received 166 complaints over the past five years referencing MyChart, with several related to the current “Medicare Kit” phishing wave, Gizmodo reported. The scam emails carry subject lines such as “Your MyChart Medicare Kit Awaits!” and offer…

Cleveland Clinic is partnering with AI automation company Luminai to automate complex administrative workflows across the health system. The health system will initially use Luminai’s technology to automate the processing of external referrals, according to a Sept. 9 news release.…

EHR company Veradigm has disclosed a cybersecurity incident involving one of its third-party vendors. An unauthorized party obtained credentials from the vendor’s environment and used them to access a Veradigm application programming interface, downloading personal data — including Social Security…

The cybersecurity landscape is undergoing one of the most significant transformations since the advent of the internet. For decades, organizations have operated under a relatively stable assumption: software vulnerabilities would be discovered, disclosed, patched, and eventually remediated over a period…