Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Health system executives often sell Epic to their boards as an investment that will earn its money back, and some attach a timeline. Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital expects to recoup its upfront cost in about five years, while West…

The Trump administration is rapidly reshaping the federal government’s approach to health technology, pushing healthcare deeper into AI and digital infrastructure while rewriting the rules around data sharing, cybersecurity and oversight. Here are 12 of the most notable actions Becker’s…

Albuquerque-based UNM Health System said clinical operations across all facilities are fully functional following an Oct. 26 cyberattack that forced ambulance diversions, canceled appointments and disrupted academic activities. In an Oct. 28 update, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences…

Buffalo, N.Y.-based Erie County Medical Center Corp. has gone live on Epic, replacing multiple legacy EHRs with a single integrated platform. The new EHR brings ECMC’s inpatient and outpatient records together and gives clinicians real-time access to patient information. ECMC…

University of California San Diego Health is partnering with wearable technology company Oura on a multiyear clinical study that will evaluate whether continuous biometric data from the Oura Ring can improve outcomes for patients undergoing bariatric surgery or starting GLP-1…

Epic’s October included new AI capabilities, expanded third-party integrations, a prescription price comparison tool and continued EHR rollouts at some of the nation’s largest health systems. Here are 15 Epic updates from October, as reported by Becker’s:

Oracle co-founder, executive chair and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison has spent years arguing that his company can overtake Epic. In an Oct. 27 keynote at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas, he pitched Oracle Health’s AI-based software to the…

Every health system CIO is navigating the same set of simultaneous pressures: transform, cut costs, increase efficiency and meet rising expectations from clinicians and patients. Deb Anderson, CIO of Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health, says the default response to those pressures…

San Francisco-based OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman have been sued over the death of a 31-year-old Seattle woman with epilepsy who stopped taking her antiseizure medication on a schedule ChatGPT allegedly designed. Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu, the parents of…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has selected 31 digital health companies for its largest Mayo Clinic Platform Accelerate cohort to date, including six developing AI-powered solutions to support clinicians and patient care. The companies will gain access to Mayo Clinic Platform’s…