Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Walmart expanded its Better Care Services platform Oct. 26 with a healthcare store run on technology from San Francisco-based General Medicine. The expansion gives customers more third-party care options and shows estimated costs up front, all in one catalog. The…

Even with AI governance policies, employee training and technical safeguards in place, hospitals and health systems face limits on how effectively they can prevent staff from sharing patient information with unauthorized AI tools. “No hospital can eliminate this risk entirely.…

The Department of Veterans Affairs has finished its 2026 EHR deployments after going live with an Oracle Health EHR system at hospitals in Cleveland and Anchorage, Alaska, on Oct. 24. The system went live at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA…

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health has expanded its hospital-at-home program to Baptist Medical Center South, eight months after launching it at its flagship Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville. More than 300 patients have transferred home from the two hospitals since the program…

Albuquerque-based UNM Health System is diverting all ambulance traffic to other hospitals and has canceled all clinic appointments Oct. 26 as it responds to a cybersecurity issue. UNM Health officials are working to resolve the issue, according to a news…

Clinicians at Cambridge, Mass.-based Beth Israel Lahey Health who used Heidi’s ambient AI scribe most heavily spent about 2.5 fewer minutes per encounter with notes open in the EHR after enrolling, according to a quality improvement study published in Annals…

Anthropic filed its S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Oct. 26, naming healthcare and life sciences among the new markets the Claude developer intends to enter as it prepares to list on the Nasdaq Global Select…

The White House and South Carolina officials have launched a six-month cybersecurity pilot program to help rural hospitals strengthen their defenses against cyberattacks and maintain patient care during technology disruptions. The initiative, called Project Lifeline 250, will provide cybersecurity resources…

Cleveland-based University Hospitals has rescheduled some appointments and elective procedures as it continues recovering from an Oct. 22 cybersecurity incident that has disrupted its MyChart patient portal and other systems. In an Oct. 26 statement shared with Becker’s, the 18-hospital…

Health systems continue to turn to Big Tech companies to move their data to the cloud, test AI in clinical settings and build guardrails around how it is used. Here are five collaborations involving Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia reported on…