Giles Bruce

1 week ago | beckershospitalreview.com | Giles Bruce

Waukon, Iowa-based Veterans Memorial Hospital went live with an Epic EHR on June 14 — all for the relatively low price of $3.88 million. As a 25-bed critical access hospital, the organization typically wouldn’t have access to Epic, which usually only works with larger hospitals and health systems, said Veterans Memorial CEO Michael Coyle. Providers had been asking for a new EHR for improved patient safety.

1 week ago | beckershospitalreview.com | Giles Bruce

Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke’s Health System has generated an extra $13,049 per clinician through the use of ambient AI, KLAS Research reported. The eight-hospital system adopted Ambience’s generative AI for clinical documentation in 2024. The health IT researcher surveyed 371 users for ROI and 41 providers for burnout. Here are seven benefits of the technology at St. Luke’s, according to the June 20 report:1.

1 week ago | beckershospitalreview.com | Giles Bruce

Kettering (Ohio) Health empowered employees to innovate its response to a recent cyberattack rather than relying on a typical command-and-control structure, the Dayton (Ohio) Business Journal reported. The 14-hospital system was struck by ransomware May 20, resuming normal operations June 10. “This was not the type of response that you can coordinate,” Kettering Health CEO Michael Gentry said at a forum covered by the Business Journal.

1 week ago | beckershospitalreview.com | Giles Bruce

An IT vendor data breach involving 5.4 million individuals has ensnared health systems. Episource, which provides medical coding and risk adjustment services to health systems and payers, said it turned off its computer systems Feb. 6 after detecting unusual activity on its network. The firm later determined that a cybercriminal accessed and stole data between Jan. 27 and Feb. 6.

1 week ago | beckershospitalreview.com | Giles Bruce

Seven health system CIOs made Constellation Research’s Business Transformation 150 2026 list of the top IT leaders across industries. The tech research firm selects the finalists after receiving nominations from peers, industry influencers, tech vendors and analysts. Here are the finalists from health systems (in alphabetical order):1. Omer Awan, chief information and digital officer of Fred Hutch (Seattle)2. Rohit Chandra, executive vice president and chief digital officer of Cleveland Clinic3.