Health IT news and digital transformation trends

RWJBarnabas Health’s AI-enabled early warning system was tied to an 18% reduction in the risk-adjusted odds of in-hospital death among high-risk patients, as mortality fell from 23.1% to 18.6% across the health system’s 11 hospitals. According to a July 29…

Unlimited Technology Systems, a practice management and revenue cycle software vendor, has disclosed a data breach affecting at least 442,000 patients whose personal and medical information was exposed in an October 2025 hack. A subsequent forensic investigation found an unauthorized…

Renton, Wash.-based Providence saw an 84% overall acceptance rate for AI-generated drafts across 14 Epic workflows during the first week after its recent Epic upgrade, according to a LinkedIn post from Adar Palis, senior vice president of clinical and revenue…

MCBS, a medical billing and revenue cycle management company, has disclosed that a network breach compromised personal and health information belonging to 1.26 million individuals, according to a filing with the HHS Office for Civil Rights. MCBS detected unauthorized access…

Health IT leaders say the skill they can’t find isn’t AI or security alone, it’s someone fluent in both. The job title doesn’t exist on most org charts yet. But two health system IT leaders who spoke with Becker’s point…

More than 40 million Americans ask ChatGPT health questions every day, according to OpenAI’s own research, and a growing number of hospitals and health systems have adopted the company’s enterprise AI products. That footprint is now colliding with a stack…

Health systems are moving quickly to advance their digital strategies, but a persistent gap continues to surface between what executive leadership envisions and what clinicians can realistically use. Closing that gap is increasingly what determines whether digital transformation succeeds or…

Anderson, S.C.-based AnMed still has 13 services and practice locations closed as of Wednesday, four days into a malware-related cybersecurity incident that knocked out the four-hospital system’s phones, internet and computer systems. Closed locations include imaging sites in Anderson, Cannon,…

There is a remarkable thing humans do: we adapt. In our everyday lives, we spend more time managing uncertainty than we realize. Will traffic make us late? Is the package arriving today? Who’s picking up the kids? Is everyone going…

Nvidia’s new Open Secure AI Alliance, with 37 founding members including Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and Salesforce, is being framed as an industry response to a single incident. For hospital and health system leaders, it’s worth reading as something narrower and…