Suki and Google Cloud are advancing clinical support technology to include patient summaries and a question-and-answer functionality. 

A bipartisan U.S. House task force released a report Dec. 17 outlining artificial intelligence policy recommendations, including for healthcare.

AtlantiCare is seeing success with the implementation of Oracle Health's Clinical AI Agent (CAA), formerly known as the Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant.

Despite an investment that will drag down his bottom line in the near term, a three-hospital system CFO told Becker's it was an "easy" choice to switch to Epic.

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health has formed a coalition with Microsoft, Gates Ventures, Epic and West Health to address the escalating challenges of rural healthcare, which impact 60 million Americans.

Meditech shared with Becker's that it plans to tackle healthcare's most pressing challenges in 2025, including clinician burnout and health inequities, by focusing on key initiatives such as advancing interoperability, introducing new tools, and integrating AI into its solutions.

Texas Tech University System's data breach in September possibly breached the information of 1.4 million patients, according to HHS.

Oracle Health's busy 2024 included a bevy of new EHR product reveals and deals with health systems.

The Digital Medicine Society, in partnership with the Consumer Technology Association and UMass Chan Medical School's Program in Digital Medicine, has launched the Connected Health Collaborative Community to drive advancements in connected health technologies.

Epic regularly does "immersion trips" to hospitals and health systems to get a better feel for how they're using its EHR and to identify needs for new software, according to founder and CEO Judy Faulkner.

HHS released a final rule on information blocking Dec. 17, amending two exceptions from previous information blocking rules and clarifying additional activities that don't constitute information blocking through the Protecting Care Access Act.

With pervasive efficiency and workforce challenges, healthcare organizations face a growing imperative to embrace innovation. A recent webinar hosted by Becker’s Healthcare brought together key voices from the industry to discuss the transformative power of AI in alleviating clinician burnout, improving patient care, and streamlining operations.

Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers filed a lawsuit against Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, alleging the company violated state consumer protection and data security laws after a February ransomware attack.

An internal AI chatbot developed for Optum employees was inadvertently left publicly accessible online, allowing unrestricted access via a web browser, TechCrunch reported Dec. 13. 

Epic Nexus, an Epic Systems initiative and a TEFCA Qualified Health Information Network, has connected 625 hospitals to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). 

Thousands of patients at Dallas-based UT Southwestern Medical Center had their data exposed through a third-party calendar management tool.

Rice University and Houston Methodist have partnered to establish the Digital Health Institute, a multiyear initiative aimed at leveraging technology and collaborative expertise to advance healthcare.

Amazon continued its healthcare push in 2024 even as some of its fellow disruptors backed off.

Epic had another busy year of health systems moving their EHRs to the company.

A hospital billing vendor has agreed to a $2 million settlement over a cyberattack that breached patient data from five health systems.