Health IT news and digital transformation trends

After years of pilots, proof-of-concept deployments and early AI rollouts, health system technology leaders have sharpened their focus on a harder challenge: deploying the right tools at scale, with measurable outcomes and against real operational problems. The big question now…

UC San Diego has launched the Institute for Applied Health Intelligence, a multidisciplinary initiative aimed at using AI and other digital technologies to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. The institute will bring together experts from UC San Diego Health…

Epic President Sumit Rana will step down from the electronic health record company Aug. 14 after more than two decades with the organization. In an email sent to Epic employees July 3 and shared with Becker’s, Mr. Rana said he…

A federal judge has dismissed the consolidated cyberattack lawsuit against Stryker after the plaintiffs voluntarily withdrew their claims without prejudice. U.S. District Judge Hala Jarbou of the Western District of Michigan signed an order June 30 dismissing the claims of…

Cone Health is investing at least $40 million to rebuild the foundation of its Epic EHR after years of customization left the health system with technical debt and limited its ability to adopt newer Epic capabilities. Mike Kramer, MD, chief…

Health system operators spent the past two years answering a central AI question: Does it work? They have an answer now – a “yes” in many administrative functions and there’s a clear pathway to integrating AI smartly into clinical decision-making…

Only two large health systems — those with more than 10 hospitals — made an enterprisewide EHR purchase decision in 2025, according to KLAS Research. Overall, the number of hospitals affected by a new EHR decision fell 40% compared with…

OpenAI is in early talks with the Trump administration about handing the federal government a 5% stake in the company, CNN reported July 2.  The proposal, still described as conceptual, would also ask other leading U.S. artificial intelligence companies to…

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health is moving its IT service desk and applications support work to an outside technology partner. The 90-plus hospital Catholic system said the change affects Technology and Information Services roles involving internal tech support but does not…

Healthcare has broadly settled on a reassuring principle for clinical AI: keep the human in the loop. For most health systems, clinician oversight has become the standard safeguard and the structural answer to concerns about AI errors, bias and patient…