Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health’s $1.5 billion Pearl innovation district has already generated $224 million in economic impact and 2,270 jobs in its first year alone. The district, which opened June 5, 2025, also produced $9.8 million in tax revenue for…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella criticized restrictions on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 model during an internal meeting with engineers working on Microsoft’s Copilot products, CNBC reported July 16. Mr. Nadella described the model as “so editorially controlled” and said its restrictions…

Healthcare organizations have spent years adding endpoint tools, email filters, identity controls and network monitoring. But those investments have created another challenge: security teams now face more data than any person could reasonably review, while the window to stop an…

Stephens Memorial Hospital District in Breckenridge, Texas, will switch to Oracle Health’s CommunityWorks EHR system, The Breckenridge Texan reported July 16. The new platform, which will go live on July 20, will unify patient records across every facility in the…

Federal authorities are intensifying their pursuit of the cybercriminals behind hospital and healthcare ransomware attacks, bringing charges against ransomware developers, state-sponsored hackers and even insiders from the cybersecurity industry. The latest move came July 14, when the Justice Department indicted…

Clinicians using at least one AI tool report significantly higher EHR satisfaction than non-users, according to a KLAS Arch Collaborative report released July 17. The report, “AI Insights from the Arch Collaborative 2026,” draws on survey data from 12 Epic…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is collaborating with Scale AI to develop and deploy clinical AI applications aimed at reducing administrative burden and improving patient safety. The partnership focuses on three areas: streamlining clinical documentation review before patient visits, automating detection…

A year and a half ago, Bob Berbeco was doing what most health system CIOs know all too well. He was fielding AI pitches, launching pilots and watching vendor promises accumulate. Then he decided to stop. For most rural hospitals,…

Most large health systems have spent the last several years working toward a single, unified EHR platform. But getting there is rarely quick.  Mergers, acquisitions and phased rollouts mean many of the country’s biggest hospitals and health systems are still…

Boston Children’s Hospital and OpenEvidence have launched a multiyear collaboration to study how clinicians’ point-of-care use of AI tools relates to clinical practice patterns and care delivery. The project, unveiled July 16, will analyze aggregated, provider-level data to identify links…