Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health raised hospice consultation rates from 44% to 84% by redesigning its EHR to automatically link hospice consultation orders to comfort measures orders, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. The study tracked more…

Oracle Health’s month was dominated by its expanding federal footprint — a bigger VA contract and three more medical center go-lives — alongside a new AI-powered patient portal and continued fallout from last year’s Cerner data breach. Here are four…

Bill Gates says AI should not be allowed to deliver a terminal diagnosis to a patient, even though the technology is fully capable of doing so. In an Aug. 25 blog post, the Microsoft co-founder proposed a category of work…

The list of what artificial intelligence promises to fix in healthcare is long: administrative burden, diagnostic accuracy, care coordination, staffing shortages. But the things it could break, according to executives at major health systems, deserves equal attention. When asked to…

Most Americans want physicians to disclose when AI is used in their care, and most also feel they have too little say over it, a Pew Research Center report found. The survey, published Aug. 25, drew on responses from 3,488…

Healthcare IT teams may be stuck in “firefighting” mode for reasons that go beyond burnout, as CIOs point to an expanding mix of upgrades, cybersecurity demands, AI projects and operational work that is increasingly outpacing their capacity. A recent report…

Portland, Maine-based MaineHealth again defended its use of a Palantir product, saying the tool helps patients overturn improper insurance claim denials. The health system said in an Aug. 25 news release shared with Becker’s that prior authorization requirements and claim…

Health systems are increasingly talking about the value of technology and AI, but the ability to demonstrate that value financially has not caught up, according to new research from Deloitte. The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions surveyed 64 healthcare CFOs…

ECRI, a global patient safety nonprofit organization, is asking providers and health systems to report any incident where an AI-enabled tool may have contributed to an error or introduced risk in care delivery.  The company has expanded its problem reporting…

Most health systems don’t have an AI problem; they have an operationalization problem. Underneath that operationalization problem are two journeys running at once. The technology journey (the platform, the data pipelines, the evaluation infrastructure) is, relatively speaking, the tractable one.…