Health IT news and digital transformation trends

The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to expand its contract with Oracle Health past its current ceiling, already near $10 billion, and extend the deal by three years, FedScoop reported Aug. 12. VA reached its contract ceiling sooner than planned…

Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke’s University Health Network and UnitedHealthcare have automated claim status updates for 88% of the claims exchanged between the two organizations, using Epic’s Payer Platform, according to Epic’s newly released 2026-2027 Almanac. The two organizations turned on…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI and international partners have issued a joint advisory warning healthcare organizations about Gunra, a ransomware-as-a-service group actively targeting the sector. Gunra first emerged in April 2025 as a ransomware variant built from leaked…

Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health has restored functionality to some technology systems affected by a multiday connectivity outage and said it found no indication the disruption is tied to a cyberattack, WYFF News 4 reported Aug. 11. Staff and patients first…

Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Health is warning patients about a phishing scam that uses fraudulent emails promising a “MyChart Medicare Kit.” The fraudulent messages carry the subject line or text “Your MyChart Medicare Kit Awaits,” according to an Aug. 11 Sentara…

Herbert Leon Kimble, 60, pleaded guilty Aug. 11 in federal court in Columbia, S.C., to conspiracy to defraud the United States and failure to appear, following his role in a $1.2 billion telemedicine and durable medical equipment fraud scheme. Mr.…

Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Health and Providence, R.I.-based Brown University Health have expanded their use of Microsoft’s agentic AI platform. Brown University Health built more than two dozen AI agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio, including two emergency department agents embedded in…

Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) launched the Health AI Cybersecurity Work Group on Aug. 12, tapping cybersecurity leaders from eight health systems to build the sector’s first peer-developed playbooks on frontier AI model cyber risk. A leadership council steers the…

Oracle Health’s new AI-powered patient portal is now generally available to patients across the U.S. The Oracle Health Patient Portal integrates directly with the Oracle Health electronic health record, giving patients access to their medical records without uploading data into…

Anderson, S.C.-based AnMed said unauthorized posts appeared on its social media accounts Aug. 11 as part of its ongoing cybersecurity incident. In a statement posted to its website, AnMed said it removed the content, disabled access to the platform and…