For some health systems, moving to Epic is becoming as much an application-consolidation project as an EHR project. Recent Becker’s reporting shows health systems using Epic implementations and optimization efforts to retire dozens or even hundreds of legacy and third-party…

Most people think telemedicine is a pandemic-era invention. The truth is more interesting, and more instructive for where we need to go next. The story begins not in a hospital, but in outer space. Where Telemedicine Originated In 1960, NASA…

Jackson-based University of Mississippi Medical Center did not pay a ransom in connection with the cyberattack that disrupted its systems in February, according to officials. UMMC Vice Chancellor of Health Affairs LouAnn Woodward, MD, told SuperTalk Mississippi the state did…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Sept. 18 directing state agencies to accelerate implementation of the state’s new AI oversight laws and to explore requiring frontier AI developers to build an emergency shutoff, or “kill switch,” into their…

Two health system CIOs say the traditional enterprise IT model is changing as AI reshapes technology work and more tech expertise spreads across healthcare organizations. For Will Landry, senior vice president and CIO of Baton Rouge, La. -based FMOL Health,…

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine has launched⁠ a multiyear initiative to bring Lancaster (Pa.) General Health and affiliated entities onto its shared electronic health record platform. The PennChart Integration & Expansion Program, or PIE, will move Lancaster General Health and its affiliated…

Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health has restored MyChart in read-only mode as it continues recovering from a cybersecurity incident that began Sept. 1. Patients can now view their health information in the portal, though scheduling and messaging features remain unavailable. The…

Eight years ago, Michigan Medicine’s head of pathology walked into the CIO’s office with a number that reframed the hospital’s entire technology budget conversation: The department alone would need 11 petabytes of storage to run digital pathology at scale, at…

Techstars and the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group selected nine startups for a healthcare accelerator focused on emerging technologies and care delivery. More than 1,200 startups applied for the 2026 Techstars Healthcare Accelerator powered by Permanente Medicine Mid-Atlantic States, according to…

Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center Health Network is in the middle of an Epic EHR implementation that’s expected to do more than unify patient records — it will eliminate 88 separate software applications the health system has accumulated over years…