Andrea Fox

The new federal electronic health records system went live at facilities in Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Detroit and Saginaw. The Department of Veterans Affairs also says it is staffing up to support implementations of the long-beleaguered Oracle Health EHR.

The Department of Defense has opened a multiple-award solicitation, focused on procurement of enterprise technologies and other IT related to the MHS GENESIS electronic health record.

But many hospitals and health systems desperate to scale artificial intelligence are trapped by a dependency on EHR vendor roadmaps, a new survey shows, with 45% of respondents struggling to move beyond pilot phases.

Thirteen hospitals and 374 clinics are now exchanging patient medical records directly with the Social Security Administration through the nationwide interoperability network.

Newly announced artificial intelligence applications highlight the shift toward domain-specific automation, where reasoning and native integration aim to improve efficacy and safety.

The Caliper FHIR Accelerator implementation community has been organized with multiple industry partners and collaborators to improve medical and personal health devices data exchange.

More veterans have faster access to community care appointments and will have access to VR therapies, while an agentic artificial intelligence-enhanced operational system will help 150 VHA medical centers eliminate siloed processes.

By embedding OpenEvidence directly into its Epic electronic health records, the New York health system aims to change how its clinicians access health data at the point of care to improve patient outcomes.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' latest revision and reshuffling of healthcare and technology function also moves some key C-suite technology leaders to the Office of the Chief Information Officer.

The state's Rural Health Transformation Program initiative seeks to balance federal funding changes with telehealth, artificial intelligence and workforce initiatives.