Health IT

Healthcare information (HIT) systems are designed to connect all the elements together for patient data, reports, medical imaging, billing, electronic medical record (EMR), hospital information system (HIS), PACS, cardiology information systems (CVIS), enterprise image systems, artificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

Cyberattack forces Massachusetts hospital into ‘Code Black’
A “cybersecurity incident” at Heywood Healthcare forced it to halt all emergency services at one of its hospitals. Details on what happened remain largely unclear.
Assisted-living facilities in Florida, Alabama hit with cyberattack that impacted 26,000
The incident at Methodist Homes is now over a year old but was only recently disclosed to the public. The nature of the data breach remains unknown; however, it has been confirmed that hackers accessed protected health information.
HLTH 25 in Las Vegas: News roundup from the annual conference
The 2025 HLTH convention in Las Vegas, held at the Venetian Expo Center, brought together vendors, researchers and healthcare providers for four days of presentations, panels, awards and industry announcements. Here's a selection of news from the show floor.
Humana, Providence unveil interoperable data-sharing framework
The two companies said their model for exchanging payer and provider data will be “easily replicable” and could be adopted across the healthcare space. The initial rollout of the system will be focused on automatically identifying Medicare Advantage patients.
Over half of emergency CT requests are considered 'inadequate'
Up to 72% of CT requisitions from ED providers could be considered inadequate according to RI-RADS, which was developed to evaluate the clinical reasoning quality of imaging orders.

Patients file $5M class-action lawsuit against 1 of America’s oldest radiology practices

"Jane Doe,” who is under 18, and legal representatives claim Radiology Associates of Richmond failed to safeguard private health information.

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Biopharma company confirms ransomware attack as 176 GB data trove is posted

Indiana-based Inotiv confirmed the data breach in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Infamous cybercrime cell Qilin has claimed credit for the attack.

Epic partners with Microsoft to roll out AI-powered clinical scribe

Epic confirmed on Tuesday that its long-rumored AI scribe feature is a reality. The company said it’s working with Microsoft-owned Nuance—and with clinical documentation standout Abridge—to add the feature to its platform.

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Could ChatGPT be up to the task of monitoring AI drift?

Artificial intelligence tools in radiology require constant monitoring to ensure model performance remains consistent.

Amy Thompson from Signify Research explains integration of AI into CVIS systems

AI now embedded in nearly every cardiovascular IT system

Artificial intelligence's role in day-to-day patient care continues to grow. What should health systems and cardiology departments be thinking about as they shop for new technologies?

Artists rendering of the Artemis I mission Orion space capsule with a cut away showing the two radiation detecting human phantoms. NASA/Lockheed Martin/DLR image

Google, NASA working to deploy AI medical assistant on space missions

A new natural language processing tool from Google is being trained on spaceflight scenarios to aid medical personnel on missions to the moon, Mars and beyond.

AI company to develop radiology-specific LLM reporting assistant

The system will assist radiologists by identifying lesions and drafting a single-sentence, localization-aware report alerting readers to the finding.

Duke Health partners with analytics firm Trilliant to engage patients

Duke Health said the analytics platform will help it better understand the patient care needs of the local community, improve satisfaction scores and guide decisions about expanding services.

Health IT

Cyberattack forces Massachusetts hospital into ‘Code Black’

Assisted-living facilities in Florida, Alabama hit with cyberattack that impacted 26,000

HLTH 25 in Las Vegas: News roundup from the annual conference

Humana, Providence unveil interoperable data-sharing framework

Over half of emergency CT requests are considered 'inadequate'