Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Artificial intelligence tools are helping patients and physicians identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases faster, according to an Aug. 15 report from The Wall Street Journal. The report cited several cases in which AI helped care teams or patients arrive at…

Mass General Brigham launched its postsurgical Home Hospital in 2024 for patients undergoing planned, elective procedures — bariatric surgery, colorectal surgery and nonoperative complicated diverticulitis cases with predictable recovery timelines. Nearly two years later, most of the patients don’t come…

San Francisco-based Abridge is extending its context-aware clinical decision support to every clinician at its partner health systems, regardless of how they document patient visits. More than 300 enterprise health systems, representing over 250 million patients, have adopted the tool…

Epic launched real-time prior authorization checks for clinicians at four health systems, using a new industry-standard application programming interface called Coverage Requirements Discovery. Ochsner Health in New Orleans, Froedtert ThedaCare Health in Menomonee Falls, Wis., Denver Health and Summit Health…

EHR vendors have seen a wave of significant leadership changes in recent years, most recently a string of executive departures at Epic. Health system CIOs say none of it is likely to change how they run their organizations day to…

Kelly Haynie tracks the threat not to artificial intelligence itself but to the health systems that aren’t proactive in defining the real value proposition for their teams. As CEO of Ochsner Medical Center West Bank campus, part of New Orleans-based…

The Federal Trade Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Epic, according to an Aug. 14 Reuters report citing two unnamed sources familiar with the matter. Per Reuters’ sources, the FTC has sent investigative demands to other companies in the…

In healthcare, a data breach represents a threat to patient safety, institutional trust and the integrity of care. The leaders charged with defending against cyberattacks have become among the most critical figures in any hospital or health system.  The CISOs…

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health is notifying 3,298 patients that their medical information may have been exposed after an employee clicked a malicious link in a phishing email, according to a filing with the HHS Office for Civil Rights. Vanderbilt discovered…

U.S. Rep. Michael Baumgartner, R-Wash., has sent a letter to VA Secretary Doug Collins asking why the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has not implemented several Office of Inspector General recommendations on its EHR modernization program. The open recommendations, issued…