Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health’s ambient AI rollout was associated with up to 16.6% less after-hours documentation and up to 39.3% faster chart closure among its most active users, according to a study published Oct. 23 in NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care…

Google’s multiagent artificial intelligence system outperformed comparison AI systems on several personal health tasks, but expert reviewers rated 17% of health summaries from one of its agents as carrying at least mild potential harm, according to a study published Oct.…

Cambridge, Mass.-based Beth Israel Lahey Health has formed the Center of Surgical and Medical Intelligence to develop and rigorously evaluate clinical AI, from the clinic to the operating room. The center sits within the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith…

Within a day of going live at a national care organization, Evidently surfaced a decade-old CT scan. It had been scanned in from an out-of-state emergency department, and it showed a small abdominal aortic aneurysm that nobody had ever followed…

The FDA has issued its most serious recall classification for certain hospital glucose meters after a software issue that could cause test results to be assigned to the wrong patient was linked to one serious injury. The recall affects Nova…

Ask health system CIOs which EHR task they first wanted AI to take off clinicians’ plates, and the answer was the note. In a survey released in July 2025 by CliniComp and the CHIME Foundation, 54% of CIOs said documentation…

HHS will keep HIPAA civil monetary penalties at 2025 levels and skip its annual inflation adjustment for 2026, the department said in an Oct. 21 Federal Register notice. The freeze traces to last year’s federal government shutdown. The Bureau of…

Two years ago, Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System was reviewing roughly one artificial intelligence feature for approval each month. Today, that number has climbed to more than a dozen, prompting the health system to rethink how it evaluates and…

Hospital mergers and acquisitions are reshaping health systems’ EHR footprints, with deals completed or announced in 2026 prompting hospitals to adopt new platforms, consolidate existing systems and plan future transitions. Here are 11 hospital deals involving EHR changes, according to…

Cleveland-based University Hospitals disconnected its systems from the internet after detecting unusual activity on its servers Oct. 22, which took certain digital services offline and disrupted its MyChart patient portal and public website. “While there is currently no impact to…