Health IT news and digital transformation trends

Mayo Clinic is helping develop AI-powered tools designed to expand access to hospital-level care in rural and underserved communities through a federally funded initiative aimed at bringing medical services closer to patients’ homes. The Rochester, Minn.-based health system is participating…

West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health cut its maternal sepsis mortality rate from 3.2% to 0% after embedding pregnancy-specific detection criteria into its Epic EHR. “That’s four moms who were able to go home with their babies who would not…

New York City-based NYU Langone Health researchers published the largest-ever analysis of Epic EHR communications June 22 in JAMA, finding that digital tools now supplement rather than replace in-person care. The study analyzed more than 140 million patient records from…

Boston Children’s Hospital has deployed more than 50 automations across the organization, generating more than 30,000 hours in time savings during the first half of 2026 alone, according to John Brownstein, PhD, chief innovation officer and senior vice president. The…

Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health is expanding its partnership with Oracle Health as part of a systemwide technology modernization effort that includes deploying AI-powered tools across its hospitals, medical practices and health plan. The health system plans to implement an Oracle…

OpenAI said a physician panel rated its new GPT-5.5 Instant model higher than responses written by physicians on a set of real-world health questions. The AI developer said more than 230 million people use ChatGPT each week for health and…

Researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard University and OpenAI confirmed 18 diagnoses after using an AI-assisted workflow to reanalyze previously unsolved rare disease cases. The study, published June 18 in NEJM AI, involved 376 cases spanning neurodevelopmental disorders, neuromuscular diseases,…

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has partnered with Vizlitics on AI tools for cancer clinical trial matching and data management.  Northwestern worked with Vizlitics for two years to help design and develop the tools, which the system has now officially activated, according…

HCA Capital Division has completed its final Meditech Expanse EHR go-live, marking the completion of a divisionwide implementation effort. According to a June 17 LinkedIn post from HCA Capital Division CIO Brian McElyea, Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H., became…

When an AI agent goes off script, how do health systems react? And what is the script for such a new technology? At Canton, Ohio-based Aultman Health System, the moment came from an internal employee handbook agent the team built…