Health IT news and digital transformation trends

A former Epic Systems employee has sued the EHR vendor alleging its noncompete agreement and related policies violate California law. Andrea Hull filed the lawsuit July 24 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Ms. Hull…

Loma Linda (Calif.) University Health is notifying patients after a file containing limited protected health information was inadvertently uploaded to an external artificial intelligence platform. The incident occurred May 25, during an Institutional Review Board-approved research study at the health…

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HHS’ Office of Inspector General has opened an audit of the agency’s governance framework for artificial intelligence tools used across the department. The audit will examine whether HHS has established AI governance for developing and deploying AI tools in line…

Cincinnati Children’s has spent years building up a body of pediatric clinical and operational knowledge — protocols, standards and guidance developed and refined across its own campuses. Until recently, that knowledge lived scattered across systems, shared drives and one-off conversations.…

Indianapolis-based Community Health Network launched Emmie, an artificial intelligence assistant built by Epic, inside its MyChart patient portal. Emmie lets patients ask conversational questions about their health records and get personalized answers drawn from visit notes, test results and prior…

The Department of Health and Human Services expanded its health tech ecosystem initiative, adding new voluntary pledges covering medical price transparency, clinical trial matching, patient scheduling and software-based care access, Nextgov/FCW reported July 28. Among the additions: pledges targeting population…

Anderson, S.C.-based AnMed reopened its physician offices for scheduled appointments July 28 as the four-hospital system continues to recover from a malware-related cybersecurity incident. In a July 27 statement, AnMed said its phones, internet and computer systems remain offline. The…

CMS wants to cut off Medicare payment for the third-party vendors that run most remote patient monitoring programs today. The provision, tucked into the proposed 2027 physician fee schedule, has drawn swift pushback from hospitals, physician groups and the vendors…

Health systems are expanding partnerships with Big Tech companies as they race to deploy AI, modernize data infrastructure and improve care coordination. Here are seven collaborations involving Amazon, Microsoft and Google reported on in the past month: 1. UTHealth Houston…