Health IT news and digital transformation trends

HHS’ Office for Civil Rights has settled its 55th enforcement action under the HIPAA Right of Access Initiative. OCR opened its investigation after receiving a complaint in April 2023 alleging that Azul Vision, a California-based optometry and ophthalmology provider, failed…

Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy has become the first health system to deploy the Android version of Microsoft’s ambient AI documentation tool for nurses, according to Chief Nurse Executive Stephanie Clements, BSN, RN. The distinction matters for adoption. The tool was previously…

The Government Accountability Office told Congress that the Department of Veterans Affairs has not fully implemented 14 of 18 recommendations meant to fix its EHR modernization program. GAO has issued 18 recommendations to VA since 2020 covering cost estimating, scheduling,…

When researchers at four medical centers in Poland introduced AI to help endoscopists detect precancerous polyps, the tool worked. Detection rates improved. But the same endoscopists, when tested without the AI, performed measurably worse than they had before the technology…

Epic has experienced a wave of executive departures and leadership reshuffling over the past several weeks. Here are 11 executive moves at Epic reported by Becker’s since July 6: 1. Nick Marzotto, a former vice president of clinical applications and…

Anthropic has unveiled Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, a data security framework built with feedback from healthcare organizations and more than 100 other enterprise customers to detect cyberattacks and other misuse while letting hospitals keep control of their AI activity data. EFS…

Boston Scientific has not resumed shipping a week after an Aug. 25 cybersecurity incident disrupted its ordering and manufacturing systems. The medical device maker said Sept. 1 its confidence in restoring shipping “continues to increase” and it is working toward…

Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health is responding to a cybersecurity incident that has knocked out MyChart and CareConnectNow across the health system, according to a Sept. 1 update posted to its website. Luminis Health said it identified the incident and immediately…

As many health systems have deployed enterprise AI at scale — signing vendor contracts, rolling out ambient documentation tools and expanding predictive analytics across clinical workflows — the University of Nebraska System has been building its own. “We’ve now implemented…

A physician I read about recently opened a clinic visit by talking to the room. “So I’m here today with …” he announced, not to his patient but to the artificial intelligence listening from a phone on the desk. An…