Health IT news and digital transformation trends

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…

Mullica Hill, N.J.-based Inspira Health launched Epic as its new EHR across all of its facilities July 27. Inspira deployed more than 50 digital tools from Epic’s AI suite and cognitive computing models starting on day one. Some tools help…

Tenet Healthcare is pairing AI and automation with clinical process redesign as it works to protect hospital margins from payer mix shifts, professional fee growth and other operating pressures. Tenet, a 50-hospital system headquartered in Dallas, said its hospital segment…

Health systems are fielding more requests for AI than ever, but ask their technology leaders which department is generating the loudest demand, and the answer has less to do with the function itself than with how ready that team already…

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health and Siemens Healthineers have signed an $87 million Value Partnership for imaging and radiation oncology technology. The agreement makes Siemens Healthineers the primary technology provider for magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, molecular imaging, interventional radiology and…

Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health spent nearly a decade waiting for the technology to catch up to an idea, and when large language models finally arrived, the health system built the tool itself rather than wait for a vendor to do…

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta lost $5.3 million in a 2023 business email compromise scheme that ended with a four-year prison sentence for the accountant who laundered the stolen funds, most of which were recovered. A federal jury convicted Ronald Deabler,…

Life sciences tech firm Veeva Systems has appealed a court ruling that dismissed its lawsuit challenging Epic’s noncompete agreements. Veeva sued Epic in January, arguing the EHR vendor’s restrictive covenants — including a noncompete tied to Epic’s “Company List” of…

Wisconsin Department of Health Services selected Epic to build a statewide EHR system, a spokesperson for the agency confirmed to Becker’s. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services could not provide additional specifics as it is in the process of negotiating…

Anderson, S.C.-based AnMed is experiencing a cybersecurity disruption involving malware that forced the closure of dozens of clinics and imaging locations across its network Monday. The four-hospital system said it is working with third-party cybersecurity specialists and state and federal…