Health IT news and digital transformation trends

With its Open@Epic conference, Epic wanted to reach software developers who had never worked with the company before, according to founder and CEO Judy Faulkner. Its previous developer events brought customers to work directly with Epic’s own engineers, starting with…

Unlimited Technology Systems has disclosed to HHS that a ransomware attack reported in July compromised the data of 3.8 million patients. The breach traces to an Oct. 5-10, 2025, intrusion into a commercial data center hosting Unlimited Systems’ g4-Centricity for…

House Democrats are demanding that OpenAI, Anthropic and House Speaker Mike Johnson respond to AI models that breached outside organizations during security tests, including a push for the AI giants’ CEOs to testify under oath. Twenty-nine members of Congress, led…

As Chicago-based Lurie Children’s prepares artificial intelligence tools for wider clinical use, the organization “locks” the models, prompts and outputs, according to Rajiv Kolagani, chief data and AI officer at Lurie Children’s. The practice is part of an internal framework…

The Sequoia Project, the Recognized Coordinating Entity for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, updated its TEFCA Governing Council roster Aug. 10, naming 19 representatives from health systems, health information networks, technology vendors and federal agencies. TEFCA is the…

The JAMA Network has issued updated guidance restricting how authors can use artificial intelligence in research and scientific work published across its 13 peer-reviewed journals.  Three editors published an editorial Aug. 10 in JAMA outlining the guidelines: The new policy…

At Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic, which operates campuses in Minnesota, Arizona and Florida as well as a network of regional clinics and hospitals, AI strategy starts with the people closest to the work. The health system has focused on creating…

Healthcare’s rush into generative AI has created a cost center many organizations only notice after the bill arrives: the token, the basic unit AI platforms use to bill for every prompt sent and every response generated. As adoption scales from…

A federal judge in Minnesota has signed off on a strict set of rules for how the data stolen in Change Healthcare’s 2024 cyberattack can be handled during the ongoing lawsuit. Magistrate Judge Dulce J. Foster approved the plan, reviewed…

Los Angeles-based UCLA Health disclosed a data breach involving patient information that was inconsistent with the health system’s privacy policies governing protected health information.  UCLA Health discovered the activity on July 2, and took steps to stop it while launching…