Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Software firm Pendo recently named 23-year-old Zain Lakhani its chief AI officer — part of a small but growing trend of companies elevating Gen Z “AI natives” to the C-suite, The Wall Street Journal reported June 25. “He’s got experiences…

Nurses are significantly less likely than physicians to report a strong EHR experience, a June 26 report from KLAS Research’s Arch Collaborative found. The report, which surveyed more than 121,000 clinicians across 92 organizations between May 2025 and May 2026,…

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has reduced MRI patient wait times by more than 60% in its Northwest region using an FDA-cleared AI tool that shortens scan duration without degrading image quality. The AI solution reduces image noise during MRI scans,…

For years, AI has mostly played a supporting role in clinical care — flagging a suspicious scan, drafting a note, summarizing a chart. Federal health officials are now reaching for something far more autonomous: AI agents that can take clinical…

Epic’s momentum continued in June as the EHR giant added new customers, expanded its AI capabilities, advanced large-scale implementations and shared its vision for the future through comments from founder and CEO Judy Faulkner. Here are 11 Epic updates Becker’s…

AI has the potential to lift everyone — not just the innovators and early adopters.

Stryker has filed a motion to dismiss a consolidated class-action lawsuit stemming from the March 11 cyberattack that disrupted its business operations. Eight current and former Stryker employees sued the medical device maker within 48 hours of the company’s announcement…

UC Berkeley (Calif.) researchers have developed an AI model that identifies sudden cardiac death risk from standard electrocardiograms more accurately than current clinical tests, according to a study published in Nature. The team trained the algorithm on more than 440,000…

Amazon One Medical is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit in federal court following a data breach that exposed patient records at its senior care unit. The lawsuit, filed June 19 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of…

Pensacola, Fla.-based Baptist Health Care is moving to an Epic EHR system. The new EHR system will roll out in 2028, according to a June 24 news release Baptist Healthcare shared with Becker’s. “Selecting Epic reflects our commitment to continuously…