Chief information officers leverage cutting-edge technologies to streamline operations and elevate care delivery. The IT leaders recognized on this list are driving forward-thinking strategies that create meaningful improvements for both patients and providers. In close collaboration with their teams, they…

Over 130,000 individuals have enrolled to be organ donors through a new feature on Epic’s MyChart patient portal. The EHR vendor launched the organ donation button in May, and since then half of its health system customers have adopted the…

The American Hospital Association has named WVU Medicine Potomac Valley Hospital in Keyser, W.Va., as the 2026 recipient of its new Rural Hospital Excellence in Innovation Award. The award will be presented at the 39th annual AHA Rural Health Care…

Minneapolis-based M Health Fairview has selected Nabla’s ambient AI assistant and dictation solution for systemwide deployment. Nabla said M Health Fairview is the first major health system to adopt its unified platform, which combines ambient clinical documentation and dictation in…

Randa Perkins, MD, is stepping into her new role as chief health information officer of Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Health with a focus on listening first and building on the system’s strengths. Dr. Perkins, who previously served in clinical informatics leadership…

When Rob Purinton became chief AI officer at Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth in January 2025, he assumed first-year success would be defined by establishing governance and credibility. Instead, he found the real work was translating enthusiasm into measurable outcomes. “In…

Federal auditors were able to gain access to a large southeastern hospital’s internal systems after successfully capturing an employee’s login credentials during a phishing campaign, according to the HHS Office of the Inspector General. OIG found the hospital generally had…

Oracle remains “committed” to its mission of transforming healthcare, according to Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences. “Whether it is helping to bring new therapies to market faster, streamlining prior authorization processes,…

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health now has 242 artificial intelligence applications live across its hospitals, up from 230 last year. “We are expanding our use of AI across CommonSpirit by deploying new capabilities and scaling the most impactful of our existing tools,”…

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham has developed a new AI foundation model that can extract disease risk signals from routine brain MRIs. The model was trained on nearly 49,000 brain MRI scans and outperformed task-specific AI models, according to a…