Frodtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network and Advocate Aurora Health are founding members of a new health equity collaboration in Wisconsin focused on alleviating social determinants of health challenges in patient care, according to a March 4 news release. 

In the past five years, Google has increased its health-related job postings, continuing its push into the healthcare industry.

Saint Alphonsus Health System and Saint Agnes Medical Center, both part of Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health, confirmed March 4 that a recent email hacking incident has exposed some patients' personal information. 

Below are some of the recent leadership changes affecting health IT.

Amazon debuted a new feature March 4 for its Halo health-tracking device: an integration with Amazon Alexa that lets users call up information on their health data via voice command, according to the Verge. 

Asheville, N.C.-based Allergy Partners began bringing most of its computer systems back online March 1 following a February ransomware attack on the medical practice, local ABC affiliate WLOS reports. 

Petersburg (Alaska) Medical Center will move to a new EHR system after discovering a former employee had been viewing patient records for the last three years, Petersburg-based community radio station KFSK reports. 

Tweets about COVID-19 social distancing are linked with decreased local mobility the next day, according to a study published March 3 in Plos One.

Data breaches in the healthcare industry are spiking, and so are reports analyzing them. Here are the biggest takeaways from five reports Becker's has covered recently.

AllyAlign Health confirmed in a notice sent to patients that an unauthorized party gained access to their computer network and planted ransomware last year.

Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the rate of burnout among physicians, who were already feeling bogged down by growing administrative workloads and additional challenges.

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital health adoption among providers and patients, with consumers increasingly using live telemedicine and digital health tracking tools to manage care, according to a recent Rock Health report.

The Department of Defense onboarded 6,000 new users to its Cerner EHR system during its latest deployment at medical centers in California, according to a March 2 news release.

Moderna and IBM said they will explore using artificial intelligence, blockchain and hybrid cloud technologies, among others, to improve COVID-19 vaccine management, according to a March 4 news release.

When it comes to sharing health data, consumers feel most comfortable giving physicians access to their records and least willing to share with technology companies, according to a recent Rock Health report.

International research groups Health Level Seven International and Observational Health Data Sciences Informatics will collaborate to improve data sharing and tracking. The collaboration will integrate HL7's interoperability resources with OHDSI's observational medical outcomes partnership to create a singular common model.

UCHealth partnered with Pointr, a developer of indoor positioning technology, to create a navigation menu to deliver door-to-door guidance on more than 60 floors at the University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colo.

Artificial intelligence has demonstrated its ability to improve healthcare by reducing workflow inefficiencies, predicting health outcomes and speeding up diagnoses, but significant questions remain about how to ensure these technologies are created and deployed responsibly.

Walgreens grew its digital health platform March 4 by expanding four existing collaborations with healthcare providers and adding 11 new ones.

DispatchHealth, a provider of in-home medical care, on March 3 closed a $200 million series D financing round.