Health IT news and digital transformation trends

A cybercriminal group calling itself The Syndicate claims it breached Israeli fintech firm Nayax and stole more than 1 billion payment card records, while telling DataBreaches.net it steers clear of attacking hospitals. Asked whether it refrains from hacking certain sectors,…

Nicklaus Children’s Health System is putting a number on its Epic rollout, and its president and CEO wants people to understand what that number is actually for. Matthew A. Love, president and CEO of the Miami-based health system, told Becker’s…

Health system venture arms have multiplied as leaders seek to accelerate AI adoption and too often they’ve accumulated deals without clearly connecting them to care delivery. Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health built its venture arm differently. Accrete Health Partners, the…

A widely used surgical risk tool — developed with federal funding and freely available online — has long been off-limits for EHR integration. That may be changing, but health system leaders say the damage from years of workflow friction has…

For most of medicine’s history, the evidence a clinician needed was scarce, scattered and difficult to retrieve at the point of care. Today, the problem has shifted. Clinicians are no longer practicing in an environment defined by too little information.…

The White House launched “Gold Eagle” on July 14, an AI-powered clearinghouse designed to accelerate detection and patching of cybersecurity vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure. The initiative pairs the Treasury Department, DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of…

Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System is notifying patients of Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital in Murphy, N.C., that their protected health information was sent to an unauthorized billing partner. Erlanger discovered the issue on May 13, according to a breach notification…

Artificial intelligence has become a workforce issue as much as a technology one in healthcare, with 2026 bringing new evidence that clinicians are increasingly using AI while organizations continue to grapple with governance, training and labor concerns. Here’s what that…

Three Russian nationals and two St. Petersburg-based “bulletproof hosting” companies face federal charges for running criminal infrastructure that enabled cyberattacks causing more than $62 million in U.S. victim losses, including against hospitals. The Justice Department unsealed the indictment July 14…

I recently saw a commencement ceremony where something surprising happened: a commencement speaker was booed by the crowd. The speaker’s message? That the graduates entering the workforce today would be fine; that AI was just another technology shift, and that…