Health IT news and digital transformation trends

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.…

Sunny Eappen, MD, has been named chief medical officer of Assort Health, an AI agent platform for the patient journey. In this newly created role for the company, Dr. Eappen will be responsible for bringing clinical and operational expertise to…

The White House will meet Aug. 4 with representatives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta to discuss a new framework for government review of frontier AI models before public release, CNN reported. The meeting follows President Donald Trump’s June 2…

NewYork-Presbyterian has adopted Signal 1’s AI Management System (AIMS) to govern and monitor artificial intelligence tools deployed across the New York City-based health system.  The platform will oversee AI technologies ranging from cancer and structural heart disease detection tools to…

For a growing number of health systems, Epic optimization is becoming as consequential as the go-live itself. Epic is continuing to roll out new tools for its customer base in 2026, part of the company’s push to expand the role…

Hospitals are increasingly paying for artificial intelligence by the token, turning a once-obscure technical term into a line item finance teams are starting to watch. Tokens are the basic unit large language models use to read and generate text. A…

Hospital leaders often measure cybersecurity readiness by asking whether their own environment is protected. Are systems patched? Is multifactor authentication in place? Are employees trained to recognize phishing attempts? Those questions matter, but they no longer cover the full scope…

With the new co-developed capability, ambient AI steps beyond the visit and into the work around it.

Members may not think they are talking to AI when they call their health plan, but the person assisting them might be. Some insurers have been leaning into member-facing AI capabilities. One of UnitedHealth Group’s 1,000 AI use cases has…

Two acquisitions announced a day apart this week point to a broader consolidation wave among AI-native virtual care companies, as scaled platforms move to acquire clinical data, provider networks and health plan capabilities rather than build them from scratch. Included…