Health IT news and digital transformation trends

OpenAI has expanded Health, a ChatGPT feature that lets users securely connect personal health data, to all eligible users in the U.S. The rollout covers logged-in users age 18 and older on web and iOS across the Free, Go, Plus…

Healthcare data breaches climbed to 281 in the first half of 2026, up from 270 during the same period last year, according to the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center. The sector ranked second among all industries by compromise count, trailing…

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Ardent Health has surpassed 1 million patient encounters supported by Ambience Healthcare’s ambient AI solution. Ardent-affiliated clinicians now use Ambience in 87% of ambulatory encounters across specialties, well above the 40% to 45% industry benchmark cited in peer-reviewed…

Rhode Island and Hawaii enacted new AI healthcare laws in June and July, while Arizona’s governor vetoed a similar chatbot disclosure bill, reflecting a split national picture on state-level AI oversight.  Here’s a look at which states enacted or rejected…

The White House has directed HHS and NIH, along with every other federal department and agency, to realign fiscal 2028 research and development budgets around nine priority areas, including AI and foundational biological sciences. The order applies governmentwide, not just…

Two health systems have received CMS approval to add new hospitals to their hospital-at-home programs so far in 2026. The Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, which lets approved hospitals deliver inpatient-level care to eligible Medicare patients in their homes,…

Vendors are slapping an AI label on tools that have not changed and charging health systems far more for them, and CIOs say they are not paying for the label alone.  Health system CIOs have grown accustomed to vendors adding…

When UT Health San Antonio opened the UT Health Multispecialty and Research Hospital in late 2024, the facility wasn’t designed simply to expand the system’s inpatient capacity. It was designed as infrastructure, a physical proof point that artificial intelligence had…

Hospital software vendor Craneware’s ongoing assessment of this week’s cybersecurity event indicates that a “minority” of the patient records in its possession were affected, though the company says it cannot yet quantify the exact scope. The company disclosed July 20…

MaineHealth defended its use of a Palantir Technologies product, saying the tool helps patients overturn improper insurance claim denials, a day ahead of a July 23 rally planned by the union representing nurses at MaineHealth Maine Medical Center in Portland.…