Health IT news and digital transformation trends

OpenAI has added an Epic EHR integration and a public health data plugin to ChatGPT for Healthcare, with San Francisco-based UCSF Health serving as a pilot partner. The Epic integration lets authorized clinicians at healthcare organizations with supported Epic environments…

Aesto Health has reported a data breach affecting 9.54 million individuals to HHS, one of the largest healthcare breaches disclosed in 2026. Aesto, which provides data migration, EHR exchange and legacy data archiving services to healthcare providers, detected unauthorized activity…

Teladoc Health appointed Michael Grasher as CFO, effective Aug. 31.  Mr. Grasher brings more than three decades of experience in the insurance and financial services sectors, including more than 12 years in CFO roles at public and privately held companies,…

For years, LeanTaaS has helped hospitals move patients through the building faster. Its new acquisition is meant to solve what can get in their way from leaving for the next part of their care. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company announced…

A surgeon at Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health has performed the first surgery using Stryker’s SportSuite Vision application on Apple Vision Pro, a hip arthroscopy. The FDA granted SportSuite Vision De Novo authorization July 17, making it the first technology authorized…

PartsSource, a clinical technology performance platform, has named former Epic executive Nick Marzotto vice president of AI and data, tasking him with leading the company’s AI strategy. Mr. Marzotto joins PartsSource after 15 years at Epic, where he most recently…

The American Medical Association has named Jennifer Goldsack senior vice president and inaugural leader of its Center for Digital Health and AI. Ms. Goldsack joins the AMA from the Digital Medicine Society, or DiMe, a nonprofit she founded in 2019…

Health IT leaders across the country are sounding the alarm on a common theme: the pace of AI adoption is outrunning the governance, cybersecurity and workforce readiness needed to deploy it safely. From CIOs and CISOs to chief AI officers…

Epic’s Gold Stars program measures two different things: how many of the EHR vendor’s features a health system has turned on, known as configuration, and how thoroughly staff actually use what’s been switched on, known as usage. A perfect 10…

Nearly 50 hospitals and health systems had publicly accessible webpages that revealed healthcare workers’ schedules and, in some cases, cellphone numbers through workforce management platform QGenda, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Aug. 31. The publication identified public QGenda pages associated with…