Health IT news and digital transformation trends

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…

The hospitalist note template inside New Orleans-based Ochsner Health’s Epic system had gone unchanged for nearly a decade. This June, the 46-hospital system, which spans Louisiana and Mississippi, rebuilt it from the ground up and rolled it out everywhere at…

The National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and 15 allied agencies issued a joint advisory in July on a Russian FSB unit exploiting poorly configured routers worldwide. The unit, known as…

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals disclosed that a data breach at business associate Solventum Health Information Systems affected 58,778 patients. The incident involved unauthorized access to protected health information by a threat actor and occurred on or around…

The country’s largest healthcare company is placing a bet on Anthropic. Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group, is partnering with Anthropic “to responsibly bring AI to healthcare to help people live healthier lives, reduce the administrative burden, and make the health…

The industry conversation around healthcare AI has shifted. Health system leaders are no longer being asked whether to adopt the technology; they’re being held accountable for what adoption actually delivers. That accountability often rests on the answer to a simple…

There is a common misconception that artificial intelligence (AI) will improve efficiency steadily and uniformly across healthcare, from primary care offices to hospital ICUs. Instead, what is now emerging is a divergence in how AI impacts different care settings. AI…

AI-drafted responses to patient portal messages can take physicians more time to edit than it would take to write the replies from scratch, Hanover, N.H.-based Dartmouth researchers found. The team analyzed 146,000 messages exchanged between 10,105 patients and their primary…

The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned a VPN provider and two individuals on July 13 for supplying infrastructure and tools used in ransomware attacks that have hit U.S. hospitals, financial services firms and municipal governments. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets…

As AI floods the EHR, a quieter question is arising: What are health systems turning off? Every major EHR vendor is in the same race right now. Epic has more than 150 AI features and enhancements in development for 2026,…