Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Artificial intelligence is reshaping health IT at a pace that many healthcare organizations are struggling to match. From ambient documentation and clinical decision support to agentic AI that can act inside the EHR, the tools available to clinicians and administrators…

Ambient AI scribes are sold on a generous promise: give clinicians their time back. The early evidence backs it. In a six-system study, clinician burnout fell from 51.9% to 38.8% within a month of adoption, according to a 2025 article…

Boston Scientific has resumed shipping for the majority of its products at its major distribution centers worldwide, more than a week after an Aug. 25 cybersecurity incident disrupted its global operations. The medical device maker said Sept. 3 it is…

Ambulatory care has long been valued as a lower-cost, more convenient place to deliver services. What’s changing is the ambition attached to it: leaders are no longer asking only whether outpatient settings save money, but whether they can drive growth.…

The FDA has selected the first four companies to participate in its pilot program for digital health devices tied to chronic disease care. In late July, Dexcom became the first participant in the Technology-Enabled Meaningful Patient Outcomes for Digital Health…

The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs has voted unanimously to subpoena Oracle co-founder and executive chair Larry Ellison and Oracle co-CEO Mike Sicilia over the VA’s EHR modernization contract. The vote followed Oracle’s withdrawal from a Sept. 2 hearing. Committee…

Mayo Clinic Platform’s Accelerate program has selected 12 artificial intelligence companies as the inaugural participants in its new multiyear engagement pathway. The multiyear track gives select companies sustained access to Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Platform’s de-identified clinical data ecosystem, discovery…

Executives at Amazon, Ford and JPMorgan Chase have all predicted AI will eliminate a wide swath of white-collar jobs in the years ahead. Healthcare, for now, has mostly been an exception: Job openings in nearly every healthcare category tracked by…

The question healthcare CIOs are asking about artificial intelligence has changed. A year ago, the debate centered on whether to adopt. Now, it centers on whether organizations can actually see what their AI is doing once it’s in the building.…

Something has shifted in how health system technology leaders talk about artificial intelligence. The tone is becoming more cautionary and the warning is not about AI failing to deliver on its promise but instead that health systems are moving too…