Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has built its AI strategy around a portfolio of six initiatives spanning nurse scheduling, clinical documentation, maternal care and hospital discharge. Among the initiatives detailed in a Management in Healthcare: A Peer-Reviewed Journal piece republished July…

HHS is signing onto President Donald Trump’s Genesis Mission, aligning departmentwide resources to apply AI to chronic disease research. The effort centers on the NIH-led Bio Genesis Mission, which aims to cut in half the time it takes scientific discoveries…

Wilmington, Del.-based ChristianaCare will go live on Epic on Oct. 3, marking the final stage of an enterprise-wide Epic transformation. The Epic EHR implementation has been underway since the health system’s 2024 decision to switch from its previous EHR platform.…

Health systems have poured money and attention into scaling AI over the last several years — but, of course, not every pilot makes it that far. For Tinu Tadese, MD, chief medical informatics officer at Boston Medical Center, the clearest…

 WellSpan Health has completed its migration to Amazon Web Services. The York, Pa.-based health system moved more than 300 clinical applications and 7.5 petabytes of clinical and non-clinical data, including its full Epic EHR environment, off data center infrastructure and…

Health systems, physician groups and telehealth trade associations are raising concerns about a CMS proposal that would bar Medicare payment for remote patient monitoring services delivered by third-party vendors, with early reaction pointing to paused RPM plans, unclear reimbursement math…

Lincoln, Maine-based Penobscot Valley Hospital has begun notifying patients and employees that their personal information may have been compromised in a data security incident first detected nearly six months ago. The hospital was alerted to suspicious activity in its IT…

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has trained more than 1,300 employees through its School of AI since launching the program in 2025, but its leaders say reaching the rest of its workforce will take more than curriculum alone. The Philadelphia-based health…

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is overhauling how hospitals track and report consumer product-related injuries, moving to a system that pulls data automatically from patients’ electronic health records, Politico reported July 21. The updated system, called NEISS-R, replaces a manually…

Clinical AI vendors have spent the past few weeks citing dueling benchmark studies to make the case that their tool is the safest or most trusted by physicians — sometimes citing the same study to reach opposite conclusions. Here are…