Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Anthropic restored public access to its Claude Fable 5 AI model on July 1, after the U.S. Commerce Department fully lifted export controls that had forced both Fable 5 and its sibling model, Mythos 5, offline for 18 days. For…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has reviewed and approved more than 100 clinical AI applications in 2026 under an executive-led governance process. The health system requires every clinical AI tool to undergo review before deployment, evaluating factors including complexity, clinical setting,…

Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health went live with Epic across all of its acute and ambulatory sites May 30, retiring 13 legacy EHRs in a single “big bang” transition rather than a phased rollout. Before Epic, Kaleida Health ran a mix…

For years, one of the most consequential storylines in health system operations was the cyberattack that took multiple hospitals offline. Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health in 2022, then Change Healthcare and St. Louis-based Ascension in 2024, showed how a single intrusion could…

The federal government’s national health information exchange framework reached a major milestone in 2026, with nearly 500 million health records now flowing through its network. The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, known as TEFCA, is a federally overseen infrastructure…

Medtronic’s April cybersecurity incident affected more than 72,000 residents of Massachusetts and Vermont, with Social Security numbers and health records among the data exposed, state attorney general breach notification filings show. Massachusetts recorded 63,534 residents affected — with both SSNs…

A June study in Nature Medicine found that general-purpose models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic outperformed specialized clinical AI tools from OpenEvidence and Wolters Kluwer across a series of medical benchmarks. OpenEvidence has since asked the journal to retract the…

Healthcare’s technology priorities are being rewritten by cost. From rural hospitals to major academic medical centers, leaders nationwide are confronting the same pressures — rising labor costs, reimbursement compression, regulatory complexity and the escalating expense of scaling AI beyond pilots.…

Anthropic is launching an internal drug discovery program with a focus on neglected diseases that traditional pharmaceutical companies would not consider commercially attractive, CNBC reported June 30. At a June 30 event in San Francisco, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, Anthropic’s life sciences…

If there was a single theme to what health system CIOs told Becker’s this quarter, it was this: The hard part of AI isn’t the technology. From CommonSpirit to Stanford to Rush, the leaders running big health systems’ digital strategies…