The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has teamed up with Microsoft and the American Legion to create innovative digital health solutions for veterans. Here are five takeaways from a Dec. 28 VA news release: 1. The organizations held the Veterans…

In looking to 2026, the main trend in healthcare is how AI and connected systems will continue to transform all aspects of operations, including workforce management and supply chains. In a November Becker’s Healthcare webinar sponsored by Infor, Adam Luff,…

A hacker sought to reroute payment funds at Yonkers, N.Y.-based St. John’s Riverside Hospital before the facility detected the incident. In September, the unauthorized party accessed a small number of employee email accounts to send phishing emails for the theft…

A federal court has accepted the guilty pleas of two men accused of committing healthcare ransomware attacks while working as cybersecurity professionals. Ryan Clifford Goldberg and Kevin Tyler Martin pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of…

At least two states plan to use funds from CMS’ $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program to expand hospital at home. Massachusetts and Rhode Island both say that growing acute hospital care at home in rural areas will be a…

Physicians at hospital-owned practices are more likely to take advantage of telehealth than their peers in private practice, the American Medical Association found. Here are four figures from the Dec. 29 article: 1. At hospital-owned practices, 79.7% of physicians use…

Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown, N.Y., has received a $20 million grant to upgrade its EHR system. The Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Grant will allow the hospital to transition to a single, unified platform across its clinics and specialty…

While healthcare AI proliferated in 2025, health systems decided to dial back on the technology for some uses. The strategy foreshadows the approach that healthcare organizations will take in the new year and beyond, as AI applications will have to…

EHRs continued to be one of the largest financial investments for health systems in 2025, as several major organizations switched to new platforms over the past year. Here are the 10 most expensive EHR projects that were completed, started or…

Apple continues aggressively hiring for jobs focused on enhancing the health features of its devices.  Here are six healthcare-related jobs for which Apple is hiring for in December: