Health system CIOs are entering 2026 with a shared conviction: The industry’s next leap forward won’t come from adding more technology, but from scaling the right technology with discipline, governance and clearer returns for both clinicians and patients. The year…

Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Children’s Hospital has contributed to a $9 million series C funding round for pediatric tech startup AngelEye Health. The company provides NICU and PICU software to over 350 hospitals, including livestream video for family connections, feeding workflows…

The American Hospital Association is backing federal guidance on safely integrating AI into operational technology. Before incorporating AI into operational technology environments, organizations should understand its potential risks and impacts, outline the business case, stand up governance and assurance models,…

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health notified federal regulators of a data breach that affected 1,984 individuals, according to a Nov. 26 filing with the HHS Office for Civil Rights. The health system reported the incident to the agency’s breach portal as…

Picture a hospital where clinical decisions never lag, where operating room (OR) schedules are optimized and shift in real time, and a single dashboard spots device issues before they disrupt care. This is not due to faster routers, but because…

Fifty-seven hospitals and health systems are calling on HHS to drop a proposed HIPAA security update they say would impose undue financial and time hardships on them. In a letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the organizations said…

Columbus-based OhioHealth is expanding Abridge’s AI-powered clinical documentation platform to thousands of ambulatory clinicians after a pilot showed a 59% drop in cognitive load and a 28% decrease in after-hours note writing. The platform was initially deployed in primary care,…

The CIO of Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital is eager to move to Epic as the organization awaits better revenue cycle and patient experience capabilities. The pediatric health system said in June it would transition to the new EHR by…

Providence, based in Renton, Wash., Microsoft Research and the University of Washington have developed an AI pathology model that researchers say can map how immune cells interact with tumors on a scale not previously possible. The model, called GigaTIME, was…

Donate Life America has recognized Epic for a new feature that allows patients to sign up to be organ donors in MyChart. The nonprofit presented the EHR giant with the 2025 James S. Wolf, MD, Courage Award for the patient…