Brewer, Maine-based Northern Light Health is transferring 1,400 of its employees to Eden Prairie, Minn.-based health services company Optum, the Portland Press Herald reported Jan. 5. 

Honolulu is the best U.S. city for an active lifestyle, according to an analysis released Jan. 5 by WalletHub, a personal finance website. 

Startup healthcare technology company Herself Health landed $7 million in seed round funding and opened its first clinic in Minneapolis.

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai is being sued over claims it transmitted patient data to Big Tech companies such as Meta, Google and Microsoft, City News Service reported.

The idea for Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's MomForce Program came about while Linda Matzigkeit was mixing cement. 

The new year began with a bang for GE HealthCare.

Tim Adams was named regional operating officer and senior vice president for St. Louis-based Ascension, according to a Jan. 5 memo shared with Becker's.

New Jersey has set aside $15 million for healthcare facilities that offer a full spectrum of reproductive care to use for facility upgrades and security enhancements. 

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare and Colorado Springs, Colo.-based UCHealth are forming a joint venture clinically integrated network, Intermountain said in a Jan. 5 news release.

Johnson & Johnson filed an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for its consumer health unit, Kenvue, moving closer toward a spinoff, Bloomberg reported Jan. 4.

Framingham, Mass.-based MetroWest Medical Center diverted local ambulances from its hospital the past three weekends, citing staffing issues, the Framingham Source reported Jan. 4.

Rural hospitals have been facing immense financial pressures as they deal with rising inflation and the COVID-19 pandemic. 

KeyCare, a virtual care platform built with Epic, raised $27 million in its series A financing round.

The director of the FDA's medical supply division praised the recently passed spending bill for its "total product life-cycle approach" and cybersecurity measure allowances, Politico reported Jan. 3. 

Millions of Paxlovid packets haven't been used, which could be tied to COVID-19 rebound risks, less federal funds and diminishing public concern about the pandemic, according to an article published Jan. 3 in Nature. 

Arman Kilic, MD, director of the Schiller Surgical Innovation Center at the Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina, is working on 25 different projects that utilize artificial intelligence. 

Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial HealthCare has named Howard Chrisman, MD, its next CEO. 

Below are five hospitals and health systems that posted job listings in the past month seeking chief medical information officers.

Forty-five percent of health tech experts predicted that two or fewer health tech companies will go public in the new year, and those predicted to go public mostly focus on enabling people to receive care and manage their conditions from their homes, according to a recent survey by Health Tech Nerds.

Google and DeepMind are lauching MedPaLM, an open-sourced large language model that exclusively addresses medical queries, Tech Times reported Jan. 4.