Health IT news and digital transformation trends

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health expects its quarterly Epic upgrades to become faster and less resource-intensive as a result of the health system’s newly completed migration to Amazon Web Services. “Our future Epic upgrades, which we go through every quarter, will…

Boston Children’s Hospital is among roughly a dozen organizations publicly named by security researcher Vangelis Stykas as impacted by a large-scale North Korean hacking operation, Wired report Aug. 5. The hospital disputes that its own systems were breached, saying the…

Health systems, insurers and AI companies are facing a wave of litigation in 2026 over how artificial intelligence is used to make or influence decisions about patient care, coverage and billing.  Here are three cases testing where accountability lands when…

The Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division expanded its Northeast Health Care Fraud Strike Force into Philadelphia and charged 19 defendants in alleged Medicaid home health aide fraud schemes. The expansion pairs the Fraud Division’s Health Care Fraud Section with…

U.S. News and World Report’s 2026-2027 Best Hospitals Honor Roll recognizes 20 hospitals, and each is backed by a chief information officer or chief digital information officer steering its technology, data and AI strategy. Some have held the role for…

When a hospital merger closes, one veteran CIO reaches for the exact same playbook every time, while another insists no two acquisitions ever call for the same one. Health systems keep getting bigger. Mergers, acquisitions and affiliations have become one…

CIO and IT executive salaries continue to grow as organizations seek to optimize tech purchases and incorporate AI into daily workflows. Cherry Bekaert’s 2026 IT Salary Guide outlines how CIO pay, IT budgets and hiring practices are shifting this year…

Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health is expanding access to specialty kidney care for patients in rural Mendocino County through a telenephrology partnership with Adventist Health Ukiah Valley, helping bring nephrologists to a region that previously lacked local specialty care. The…

Some Anderson, S.C.-based AnMed facilities are still closed as the organization deals with a cybersecurity incident that began July 26. In an Aug. 3 notice posted on its website, AnMed disclosed that 10 of its facilities are still closed due…

The job of a primary care physician has changed faster than the workforce built to support it. At Cleveland Clinic Florida, Surendra Khera, MD, is combining new technology, new roles and a fundamental rethinking of how primary care gets done.…