Health IT news and digital transformation trends

The lawsuit Epic filed against Health Gorilla in January is on track to join a newly centralized multidistrict litigation over the data-sharing company’s alleged misuse of patient records. Health Gorilla is a Coral Gables, Fla.-based company that connects healthcare organizations…

For physicians in primary care, the workday rarely ends at the exam room door. Patient messages, test results, referral requests and prescription renewals accumulate in the electronic in-basket hours after the last appointment. “In basket management is a killer for…

Patients are walking into exam rooms with a question already half-answered. Increasingly, the source of that answer is not a nurse line or a pamphlet but generative AI, and health system leaders say the shift is changing their relationships with…

Health systems are investing tens of millions, and in some cases more than $100 million, in Epic projects ranging from new EHR implementations to major rebuilds of existing systems. Here are the costs of four recent projects, as reported by…

NYU Langone launched 20 startups last year. Its next commercial product is an AI oncology tool. New York City-based NYU Langone Health’s Technology Opportunities and Ventures office, which turns the health system’s research and clinical work into commercial products, had…

Hospital executives have had little room to breathe when it comes to big investments. Median hospital operating margins were still hovering near 2% through early 2026, squeezed by rising expenses, an eroding payer mix and softening patient volumes, and finance…

From deciphering complex medical jargon to understanding the array of treatment options, patients often feel overwhelmed even before stepping into a physician’s office. But could artificial intelligence make the entire experience less daunting and even more collaborative? Yes, it’s possible.…

Wolters Kluwer Health is working with Epic to give eligible Epic customers in the U.S. turnkey access to a bundled set of drug information and patient education content delivered inside their EHR workflows, the company announced July 30. The Waltham,…

Minneapolis-based Children’s Minnesota is preparing for an Oct. 3 Epic go-live, but the decision behind the implementation was more than a decade in the making. The health system ran Oracle Health in its hospitals and eClinicalWorks in affiliated ambulatory clinics…

More than 90% of health systems have deployed third-party AI solutions, but only 44% have a dedicated platform for testing those tools before rollout, according to a new report from the Center for Connected Medicine at UPMC and KLAS Research.…