The University of Louisville announced June 12 that it ended talks with Catholic Health Initiatives about acquiring Louisville-based KentuckyOne Health's local assets, including Jewish Hospital, according to the Louisville Courier Journal.

Associate CMIO of Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger and CMIO of Geisinger Holy Spirit Richard Schreiber, MD, has participated in multiple EHR adoptions during his tenure.

The Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense will form a joint office to lead implementation of the agencies' Cerner-based EHRs as well as interoperability between the systems, Federal Times reports.

Tampa, Fla.-based Health Insurance Innovations faces a class-action lawsuit accusing the health plan provider of misleading customers into thinking they purchased ACA-compliant coverage, according to The New York Times.

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health patients filed a lawsuit against the health system for allegedly sharing patients' private information, attained through the health system's website, with technology giants such as Facebook and Google, Courthouse News Service reports.

A Saudi Arabian prince accused of failing to honor an agreement to pay Boston Children's $3.5 million for care provided to a Saudi Arabian child denies owing the hospital, according to The Boston Globe.

Zolgensma, recently approved by the FDA, tops GoodRx's list of the 10 most expensive drugs in the U.S., with a $2.1 million price tag.

Florida law firm Morgan & Morgan filed a class-action lawsuit on June 12 in New Jersey against Quest Diagnostics after the laboratory testing company disclosed that it had experienced a data breach that exposed 11.9 million patients, according to the Connecticut Law Tribune.

Becker's Healthcare is pleased to name the "100 hospital and health system chief medical officers to know" in 2019.

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System has appointed four new leaders.

  NIH Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, declared June 12 he will no longer speak on "manels," or all-male panels, to signal a commitment to the advancement of women in science.

The American Medical Association voted to create "career pipeline" programs to attract more students from diverse backgrounds to the field of medicine.

Nine pharmaceutical companies or suppliers that filed for bankruptcy since Jan. 1, as reported by Becker's Hospital Review:

Catalyst Pharmaceuticals has sued the FDA, accusing the agency of violating provisions of the law and its rights to exclusivity for its rare disease drug Firdapse when it approved a lower-cost rival drug, according to healthcare news website STAT.

All too often, while a chief information officer is wholly focused on a massive, CEO-approved digital transformation project, other leaders will spearhead their own smaller "shadow" IT projects that the CIO cannot or will not approve.

As many employers still struggle to crack the code on managing their millennial employees, another generation has started aging into the workforce, one that will require even more hands-on treatment and near-constant feedback than their older siblings.

Hawaii Health Information Exchange is developing a community master patient index to increase providers' and patients' access to patients' most up-to-date health information, Pacific Business News reports.

Most LGBTQ youth (76 percent) turn to the internet and social media when seeking mental healthcare information and services, according to a recent Trevor Project report.

Westwood, Mass.-based Lawrence General Hospital recently deployed a Meditech Expanse EHR.

The Trump administration faces another major lawsuit over its "conscience protection" rule, which will allow healthcare workers to deny care based on religious beliefs beginning on July 22, according to a report from The Hill.