Health IT news and digital transformation trends

National Nurses United will hold demonstrations against Palantir in eight U.S. cities on Aug. 27, calling on hospitals and elected officials to end contracts with the data analytics company. The protests, described by the union as its largest coordinated action…

Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System made a strategic investment in PartsSource, deepening an existing partnership with the healthcare technology platform. PartsSource, headquartered in Hudson, Ohio, operates an enterprise platform that unifies parts sourcing, service contracts, asset intelligence and workforce capacity…

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned four Iranian hackers accused of breaching U.S. healthcare institutions and other critical infrastructure targets. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Keyvan Fayyaz Ghareh Blagh, Saber Shahbazi Balujeh, Mohammad Reza Kadkhoda’i and Mojtaba…

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is not requiring hospitals to join its overhauled emergency room injury-reporting system, despite internal guidance that told hospitals otherwise, Nextgov/FCW reported Aug. 24. The program, called NEISS-R, would expand CPSC’s injury surveillance sample from roughly…

Most ambient AI deployments in healthcare follow the same arc: a physician pilot in outpatient settings, a proof of concept, a measured expansion to more clinic sites. Kevin Cook, divisional president of Sacramento-based Sutter Health’s Greater Silicon Valley Market, has…

When a patient arrives in our emergency department with persistent hypotension, our team needs to quickly answer one question: will IV fluids help this patient, or will they cause harm? That question doesn’t wait for an ICU admission or a…

In June 2025, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a House panel he wanted every American using a wearable health device within four years, and said the agency was preparing “one of the biggest advertising campaigns in HHS history”…

From an AI agent that calls patients after discharge to one that resubmits denied claims on command, Epic used this year’s Users Group Meeting to show off dozens of features in various stages of rollout. The EHR giant detailed the…

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has become the first health system in the U.S. to use Q-rounds, a real-time rounds coordination platform, in adult inpatient units and intensive care units. Novant Health first launched Q-rounds in its neonatal intensive care unit,…

Anthropic said it is expanding access to Claude Mythos 5, its most capable AI model, through new Claude Security scanning capabilities, partnerships with cybersecurity tool makers and a $35 million fund for open-source security work. Claude Security, now in public…