https://healthtechmagazine.net/ en https://healthtechmagazine.net/ad/himss26 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:27:17 -0500 https://healthtechmagazine.net/ad/himss26 https://healthtechmagazine.net/magazine/issue/2026/3/spring-2026 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:39:41 -0500 https://healthtechmagazine.net/magazine/issue/2026/3/spring-2026 https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/03/create-holistic-strategy-hospitals Our understanding of health has greatly evolved. Now, we think of health as having interconnected parts: Our physical health is just as important as our mental health, and there are other factors in daily life that can impact our health. As providers continue to adopt a whole-person health approach to care delivery, they may consider turning that lens on their own systems. Similarly, healthcare organizations should not operate in silos. The many moving parts of a facility — from environmental services and IT to radiology and oncology — are much more interconnected than previously thought. How… Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:31:46 -0500 Teta Alim https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/03/create-holistic-strategy-hospitals https://healthtechmagazine.net/events/himss Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:27:37 -0500 https://healthtechmagazine.net/events/himss https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/03/cloud-based-ehr-systems-perfcon Think of electronic health records in terms of the evolution of electricity providers, says Luis Ahumada, executive director of advanced technologies and data science at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Before electricity became a centralized utility, various companies built and maintained their own power plants. Similarly, prior to cloud-based EHRs, organizations had to make large capital investments to own and maintain on-premises EHRs. Just as centralized electricity resulted in less costly and more dependable power for users, cloud-based EHRs reduce capital expenses while improving reliability and… Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:08:08 -0500 Novid Parsi https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/03/cloud-based-ehr-systems-perfcon https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/03/eaton-bolsters-hospital-defenses-healthcare-cybersecurity-act-arrives The future of hospital security will be defined by how well healthcare organizations can harden and monitor the physical and operational infrastructure that keeps clinical systems running — especially at the edge, in network closets and across distributed care environments. The Healthcare Cybersecurity Act of 2025, which directs CISA and HHS to work together to improve cyber defenses, is pushing healthcare providers to strengthen secure infrastructures and establish formal risk management programs for high-risk digital assets. A key element of the act is assisting healthcare entities to adopt… Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:08:16 -0500 Nathan Eddy https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/03/eaton-bolsters-hospital-defenses-healthcare-cybersecurity-act-arrives https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/03/hipaa-compliant-ai-openai-healthbench-claude-perfcon There’s been no shortage of movement in healthcare for the tech titans behind large language models. Since May 2025, the industry has seen OpenAI introduce HealthBench and OpenAI for Healthcare, Google launch Gemini 3, and Anthropic unveil Claude for Healthcare. (In addition, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Health, a consumer-facing LLM for aggregating and querying personal health records that’s siloed from the general-purpose ChatGPT product.) These announcements came with both fanfare and questions, namely about the efficacy of artificial intelligence and compliance with HIPAA provisions. Let’s… Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:17:46 -0500 Brian Eastwood https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/03/hipaa-compliant-ai-openai-healthbench-claude-perfcon https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/03/vive-2026-strengthening-healthcare-security-and-operational-resiliency Last week’s ViVE conference in Los Angeles brought together healthcare industry experts, from providers to startup executives, to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing organizations today.  Near the top of the list: cyber resilience and IT cost optimization. Healthcare organizations are working to extend and improve capabilities amid challenging financial realities, especially with uncertain reimbursement policies and new federal programs.  IT leaders at Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health shared their experience in launching an application rationalization program that has… Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:00:50 -0500 Teta Alim https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/03/vive-2026-strengthening-healthcare-security-and-operational-resiliency https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/03/qa-clearing-some-healthcare-ai-misunderstandings There seems to be a wide range of solutions in healthcare touting artificial intelligence–powered features, from smart assistants to communication platforms. But whether these solutions are showing tangible business results remains up in the air. Nearly four years since the public launch of ChatGPT, there are still misconceptions about AI and the processes of data management connected to making such solutions work in healthcare. HealthTech reached out to three industry AI experts to assess the gap between expectations and reality: Hongfang Liu, professor and vice president of learning health… Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:02:13 -0500 Brian T. Horowitz https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/03/qa-clearing-some-healthcare-ai-misunderstandings https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/02/vive-2026-federal-policies-and-priorities-shaping-healthcare-it The landscape for federal healthcare funding is shifting, to say the least, from the reduction of research grants awarded through the National Institutes of Health to the upcoming cuts to federal Medicaid spending and the planned $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program.  For healthcare IT leaders, that means being in organizational lockstep as traditionally tight budgets get even tighter, finding opportunities to optimize costs while still allowing for innovation, and refining the use cases for automation to improve workflows.  During the 2026 ViVE conference in Los Angeles… Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:27:39 -0500 Teta Alim https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2026/02/vive-2026-federal-policies-and-priorities-shaping-healthcare-it