Becker's Healthcare December 30, 2025
2025 was a year of transition for healthcare IT.
AI largely moved out of the pilot phase, showing real returns on investment in dollars — and lives — saved. Several big health systems completed or continued big EHR switches. With emerging technologies, cybersecurity approaches evolved.
Becker’s reached out to IT and digital leaders from the biggest health systems in the country to ask which technology projects and trends excited them the most in 2025. Here are their responses, lightly edited for clarity and brevity:
Ed McCallister. Senior Vice President and CIO of UPMC (Pittsburgh): 2025 marked a pivotal year of IT transformation at UPMC. At the core of this progress is our journey toward a single, unified EHR, laying the...







