Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Epic built its business on one product: the EHR. But some CIOs say the company is trying to be the answer to nearly everything else, too — and they’re not all sure it should be. At its Aug. 17-20 Users…

Healthcare organizations have spent the last decade investing heavily in digital patient engagement. Patient portals have become the front door to healthcare, giving patients the ability to schedule appointments, view test results, request prescription refills, pay bills, and communicate with…

Northwell Health’s northern region has nearly completed its ambient AI rollout across acute care settings, with a planned extension to nursing staff by year-end. Albert Villarin, MD, the system’s vice president and chief medical informatics officer, is already looking past…

Boston Scientific said in an Aug. 27 stakeholder update that “a cybersecurity incident continues to affect certain information technology systems, and the company remains in a network outage with disruption to its operations.” The Marlborough, Mass.-based company detected the attack…

Anderson, S.C.-based AnMed says files copied during its cybersecurity incident may have included patients’ Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers and financial account information. The health system said its investigation into the incident, first disclosed July 26, is nearly complete…

At Tufts Medicine’s MelroseWakefield Hospital in Melrose, Mass., discharge planners rarely struggled to find the community services an older patient needed to go home safely. The harder part was getting the patient to say yes. That distinction sits behind a…

Healthcare’s cybersecurity workforce problem may have less to do with finding more candidates and more to do with changing who health systems are willing to hire, how they develop them and what they do to keep them. Cybersecurity leaders at…

OpenAI and Microsoft joined more than 100 technology and cybersecurity companies in a public letter warning that hospitals and other critical infrastructure face a fast-approaching surge in AI-enabled cyberattacks. The letter, posted to OpenAI’s website Aug. 27, calls for a…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is sending $93.3 million to Georgia through the federal Rural Health Transformation Program to expand telehealth services, advance surgical robotics and modernize rural healthcare access statewide. The funding, according to an Aug. 27…

How adaptive identity helps accelerate AI, securely In the healthcare industry, the pace of innovation is accelerating. The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping clinical workflows, bringing incredible opportunities and new challenges. But this new reality has expanded…