Health IT news and digital transformation trends

The medical community should be willing to experiment with AI systems that make autonomous clinical decisions, rather than insisting physicians always have the final say, Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla wrote in a Sept. 8 article…

Boston Scientific announced Sept. 8 that it has restored remote monitoring activation capability for cardiac devices following an Aug. 25 cybersecurity incident. The medtech company said healthcare professionals can now resume activation and pairing for cardiac device implant communicators and…

Health systems do not need more AI pilots. They need a better way to decide which AI opportunities to pursue, how to deploy them, who remains accountable after deployment and whether they create measurable value. That is not simply a…

A group of Democratic lawmakers is asking the Trump administration to suspend a Consumer Product Safety Commission program that collects identifiable health data from Americans who visit emergency rooms, KFF Health News reported Sept. 8. Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts…

AI-powered referral management company Tennr has named two major healthcare heavyweights as industry advisors: Toby Cosgrove, MD, former president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, and Cindy Hundorfean, former president and CEO of Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network. Both advisors will work…

OpenEvidence said its new Darwin model has become the first AI system in history to score 100% on MedQA, a medical AI benchmark. Darwin also topped other major medical AI benchmarks, scoring 72.8% on MedXpertQA, 82.7% on HealthBench Professional and…

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health’s outsourcing of IT service desk and applications support work will affect 557 positions, according to a WARN notice filed with Michigan’s Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity. The Catholic health system announced the outsourcing plan June…

OpenAI has steadily expanded its healthcare offerings, launching a consumer health feature, a suite of hospital-focused tools, a clinician-facing product, a biology research model and acquiring a health data startup. OpenAI’s healthcare push comes as some of the largest technology…

Health systems see a financial return based on how deeply they adopt and configure Epic — not just whether they use it, according to company founder and CEO Judy Faulkner. Here are four notes on data Ms. Faulkner presented at…

Anindita “Annie” Saha, director of the FDA’s Division of Digital Health Outreach within the Digital Health Center of Excellence, has left the agency after more than 21 years. Ms. Saha’s exit ends a tenure that spanned multiple leadership roles inside…