Health IT news and digital transformation trends

The Department of Veterans Affairs deployed its Oracle Health EHR at three VA hospitals in Indiana on Aug. 22. The go-live covered the Northern Indiana Health Care System’s facilities in Fort Wayne and Marion, and the Richard L. Roudebush VA…

Vandalia Health Mon Medical Center in Morgantown, W.Va., disclosed a phishing attack that exposed the personal information of 2,173 patients. The hospital, formerly known as Mon General and legally registered as Monongalia County General Hospital Co., filed the breach report…

Epic welcomed 11 new U.S. hospitals and health systems at its annual Users Group Meeting, held Aug. 17-20 in Verona, Wis. — a smaller haul than the 28 the company announced in 2025 and the 19 it disclosed in 2024.…

For four health systems, managing Epic means something closer to an ongoing relationship than a software contract — regular executive meetings, direct developer access, and, at times, weekend-long emergency support. That closeness matters because of Epic’s scale: the company accounts for 43.7%…

More than two years after General Catalyst first said it would take over Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health, 2026 has brought the health system its first permanent CEO since the deal closed and its first named roster of AI vendors meant…

Anderson, S.C.-based AnMed has confirmed cybercriminals obtained information from the health system as part of the cybersecurity incident it first disclosed July 26. In an Aug. 21 update, AnMed CEO William Kenley shared a video message with patients, employees and…

Omaha, Neb.-based Nebraska Medicine is warning employees about a wave of Microsoft Teams voice calls impersonating IT support staff, becoming the latest health system to sound the alarm on a scam that has hit hospitals across the country over the…

Amazon is hiring software and applied-science leaders, an AI product manager and a healthcare cybersecurity specialist — the kinds of roles hospital and health system CIOs and chief digital officers are competing for as they build out their own AI…

Kaleida Health’s transition to Epic’s EHR system cost the Buffalo, N.Y.-based health system $170 million and contributed to a $21.1 million operating deficit in the second quarter of 2026, a spokesperson for the organization confirmed to Becker’s.  The Epic platform…

Epic used its Users Group Meeting executive address this week to confirm publicly for the first time that it’s participating in Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s effort to test its most capable — and still unreleased — AI model against critical software…