Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Healthcare data breaches cost an average of $6.64 million in 2026. According to IBM’s “Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026,” conducted by Ponemon Institute, that figure marks healthcare’s 13th consecutive year as the costliest industry for data breaches, though…

Health systems are moving agentic AI beyond pilot projects, scaling voice agents and autonomous workflows across call centers, scheduling, pharmacy operations and clinical support. Here are eight recent examples spanning 12 health systems: 1. WellSpan Health (York, Pa.) expanded its…

Remote patient monitoring has emerged as one of the most common uses of the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, created under last year’s federal reconciliation law and administered by CMS. States, hospitals and health systems are citing remote monitoring…

Anderson, S.C.-based AnMed is warning patients to be cautious of electronic messages during its ongoing cybersecurity incident. In a notice issued July 30, AnMed said some patients may be receiving communications, including MyChart appointment reminders, that appear to come from…

Health systems are racing to keep up with their EHR vendor’s quarterly cadence. They should be asking whether that roadmap leads where clinical AI actually needs to go.  A recent Becker’s piece on EHR upgrade strategy reads like a dispatch…

Henry Ford Health and Michigan State University Health Sciences made the first investments from the Henry Ford + MSU Innovation Fund, backing early-stage companies LightHearted AI and M3D.  The organizations announced the deals in a July 30 news release shared…

Oracle Health’s month centered on the fallout from last year’s Cerner data breach, a new rural EHR go-live and a fresh look at how its federal contracts stack up against the rest of the industry’s priciest EHR projects. Here are…

Anderson, S.C.-based AnMed’s cybersecurity incident has stretched into a fifth day, with the same 13 service and practice locations closed as of Thursday that were shuttered the day before. Closed locations include imaging sites in Anderson, Cannon, Clemson and Piedmont,…

Mayo Clinic Platform has activated de-identified clinical data from Sao Paulo-based Einstein Hospital Israelita on its global AI data network.  Einstein Hospital Israelita has been a founding member of Mayo Clinic Platform_Connect since 2023, and the milestone marks the completion…

HHS CIO Clark Minor has departed, while David Hong is serving as CIO and acting chief AI officer. HHS did not respond to a request from Becker’s for comment on the timing and reason for Mr. Minor’s departure. He gave…