Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Mayo Clinic’s AI chief sees its partnership with Microsoft as a chance to do something the health system’s growing collection of AI point solutions cannot: learn from the whole patient. Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo and Microsoft announced June 2 that they…

Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health has confirmed that an “unauthorized criminal actor” caused the cybersecurity incident that has disrupted systems across its network since Sept. 1. The health system said Sept. 4 its investigation is ongoing and that its teams are…

The pace of AI investment in healthcare has few modern parallels. Health systems are signing enterprise agreements, standing up governance committees and announcing AI strategies with a frequency that would have been unimaginable five years ago. The tools are more…

The conversation on artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has shifted. A couple of years ago, the question was, “What AI use cases might work for our organization?” Today, boards and CFOs are asking a far more pointed question: “What are…

Correctional healthcare runs on a question that has to be answered correctly every time: does this patient have insurance coverage that the state or county can be billed for, instead of the cost falling directly on the facility? Quality Correctional…

OpenAI is committing $1 billion in subsidized access to its Daybreak cyber models, training and technical support through a new initiative called Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. The effort targets resource-constrained providers of essential services, “helping frontline defenders — water utilities,…

Even though ChatGPT for Healthcare can now integrate with Epic, health system leaders told Becker’s that generative AI does not get closer to the medical record unless its output can be traced, checked and audited against the chart and a…

Some of Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health’s patients are being rerouted to other facilities and its physicians are reverting to paper charts as a cybersecurity incident continues to disrupt electronic systems. Luminis Health first disclosed the incident Sept. 1, though community…

MyChart hasn’t been hacked. Nobody’s data has leaked out of Epic Systems’ platform, and the company says its security is unaffected. And yet dozens of health systems, from academic medical centers to rural critical access hospitals, have spent the past…

Epic remains the dominant EHR vendor among the nation’s largest health systems by revenue — 21 of the top 25 run on it in whole or in part. But a handful continue to use Meditech or Oracle Health instead. Here…