Health IT news and digital transformation trends

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said last summer he wanted every American using a wearable health device within four years. A year on, tracking that goal doesn’t appear to have been part of the plan, and the concrete federal…

Houston-based Nutex Health has disclosed that an unauthorized third party accessed and exfiltrated data from its computer network. The publicly traded microhospital operator said it recently detected the unauthorized activity and has engaged an independent third-party cybersecurity response team and…

CMS awarded Alaska $160 million through the Rural Health Transformation Program, funding 142 projects to expand access to rural healthcare statewide. The funding package includes $6.5 million to bring the first robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery program to Southern Southeast Alaska,…

Health system leaders are balancing massive patient demand, workforce shortages, costs, and administrative work. The question is no longer whether artificial intelligence can help. In many clinical settings, it already is. The 2026 Philips Future Health Index U.S. report shows…

Just as other healthcare challenges have evolved in the past two decades, so too have those related to security. “The big thing when you’re considering how healthcare security has changed is that it’s moved beyond traditional access control and asset…

Epic doesn’t just want to sell health systems software anymore — it wants to staff their IT departments, too. That’s the idea behind Epic Rangers, a new long-term staffing program the EHR giant unveiled at last week’s Users Group Meeting.…

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has moved about 70,000 users onto Epic as it pushes toward the next phase of its $1.2 billion enterprise EHR overhaul, COO Kevin Beiner told Becker’s. Northwell will bring its next wave of hospitals…

Thirty-four percent of U.S. adults use AI chatbots for at least one health-related reason, an Aug. 25 report from Pew Research Center found. The findings come from a survey of 3,488 U.S. adults conducted June 22-28 and follow a KFF…

Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health’s Hospital at Home program has provided hospital-level care to more than 1,000 patients in the Richmond region since launching in 2023. The program, run through VCU Medical Center, delivers acute inpatient care directly to patients’ homes.…

Patients at Fort Worth, Texas-based JPS Health Network are facing lasting consequences from a network outage that stretched nearly two weeks, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. JPS Health Network operated under a “controlled network downtime” starting Aug. 3 after detecting…