Health IT news and digital transformation trends

OpenAI is continuing to build out its healthcare ambitions, hiring across technical, engineering and sales roles aimed at helping health systems and other healthcare organizations deploy and scale its AI technology. The company is currently advertising four health tech roles…

UC Davis Health researchers developed a brain-computer interface that let a man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis communicate independently at home for nearly two years, according to a study published in Nature Medicine. The system was developed by researchers at UC…

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has raised the ceiling on its Oracle Health EHR contract to $26.9 billion, according to an award notice published Aug. 19 on SAM.gov. The VA awarded the modification, valued at $16.9 billion, on Aug.…

A hacking incident has exposed the data of 153,174 patients of Amazon One Medical’s senior health unit. The company reported the number to HHS’ Office for Civil Rights in July, with the agency posting the figure in August. One Medical…

Autonomous AI could soon deliver better care than physicians or physician-AI hybrid teams, argues Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, a University of Pennsylvania bioethicist and former White House health policy adviser, in a recent JAMA Perspective. He and his co-authors cite…

Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health Foundation has received a $2 million gift to establish the Baptist Health Innovations Collaborative Innovation Fund, a philanthropic initiative aimed at accelerating healthcare innovation and expanding strategic partnerships. The gift, provided by the Argosy Foundation,…

The FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and HHS have updated a joint advisory warning that the Medusa ransomware group has hit more than 500 organizations, including hospitals, since 2021. HHS joined CISA and the FBI as a co-author of…

Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health has named the first eight technology companies it will work with under a transformation plan led by its owner, General Catalyst’s Health Assurance Transformation Co. The companies are Aidoc, Clarium, Commure, Fabric, Hippocratic AI, Judi Health,…

Health IT vendor CareCloud has reported a data breach affecting 3,756,469 individuals. The breach traces to a network disruption CareCloud discovered on March 16 in its CareCloud Health division, which temporarily disrupted access to one of the company’s six electronic…

The demo was flawless. The reference calls were glowing. Six months after signing, you are still waiting on EHR integration that was “almost done” at contract. Your staff is manually reconciling data the AI was supposed to handle. The vendor…