Health IT news and digital transformation trends

The Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule Oct. 26 eliminating 14 federal health IT certification criteria and scaling back AI transparency requirements, with the agency projecting more than $1.5 billion in regulatory cost savings. The final rule,…

Seattle Children’s launched the Institute for Pediatric Innovation, an organizationwide effort to accelerate pediatric innovation, on Oct. 26. Five things to know, according to the health system: 1. The institute is backed initially by a $5 million anonymous gift and…

When John Gaede arrived at Farmington, N.M.-based San Juan Regional Medical Center as CIO about two-and-a-half years ago, the hospital’s IT operations were outsourced to a third-party vendor, and it wasn’t working; the company was making decisions that didn’t align…

EHR vendors and the companies that build on their platforms are pitching health systems a growing lineup of tools, many of them powered by AI and marketed as ways to save clinicians time, flag at-risk patients earlier or take work…

The leaders of the two largest hospital EHR vendors agree that AI will remake the medical record. Where they part ways is on what that AI should be built from, who should own the data underneath it and how health…

Hackers used Anthropic’s Claude Code to compromise at least 15 healthcare organizations in Argentina, according to cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. A second threat actor, who is Chinese-speaking, primarily reached Claude models through a China-based proxy service and targeted more than 20…

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Institute has established a task force to evaluate AI tools and streamline their adoption into operations and clinical care.  The task force, called the Cancer Institute Office of Technology and Digital Strategy, is led by oncologists Paul…

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore is notifying about 3,182 patients that their information may have been compromised after a workforce member uploaded a spreadsheet containing patient data to a public AI tool the hospital had not approved.  According…

Quest Diagnostics has restored its Quanum Lab Services Manager system following a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access, but the company is still investigating the full scope of the patient data accessed. In an Oct. 26 update, the Secaucus, N.J.-based laboratory…

In a clinically integrated network where nearly 70% of primary care physicians are independent, leaders cannot rely on a traditional management structure to drive change. Physician governance and trusted data become essential to engagement and to whether AI-powered insights earn…