Bangor, Maine-based Northern Light Acadia Hospital mistakenly emailed the names of 300 patients who had prescriptions for Suboxone, a medication used to treat opioid use disorder, to an editor at the Bangor Daily News.

Genealogy company Ancestry is in the process of removing a commercial that depicted a slave-era theme, according to CNBC.

HHS made several announcements April 19 outlining the path ahead for better health record exchange.

Seven recent health IT vendor contracts and go-lives:

Healthcare technology solutions provider Nasco is teaming up with Express Scripts and three other providers to form a blockchain coalition, known as Coalesce Health Alliance.

Haven, the joint health venture between JPMorgan Chase, Berkshire Hathaway and Amazon, will open an office in New York City to recruit prospects, according to Business Insider.

Researchers at Florida Atlantic University's College of Engineering and Computer Science in Boca Raton have developed an algorithm- and sensor-based system that can monitor Parkinson's disease patients' responses to medication.

Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of the now-defunct Palo Alto, Calif.-based blood testing startup Theranos, filed a motion in federal court on April 15 to obtain records of the communications between The Wall Street Journal and the FDA and CMS, according to Reuters.

Ensuring the Department of Veterans Affairs’ new EHR is interoperable with other health systems is critical for the agency's Cerner rollout, former VA secretary Jim Peake, MD, said in an interview on Cerner's April 16 podcast episode. 

Voice recognition technology may eliminate the need for keyboards in the next few years, a venture capitalist told CNBC.

Vonage, a cloud and information technology services provider, released a new version of its application programming interface platform to support healthcare organizations' communications with patients.

Redox, an interoperability startup founded by Epic engineers, received $33 million in a new round of financing, TechCrunch reports.

A new study published in JAMA Oncology shows that artificial intelligence systems crowdsourced from data scientists can segment lung tumors as accurately as human experts can, and at much higher speeds.

Scam artists are targeting senior-living communities and low-income neighborhoods in what appears to be an elaborate ruse to commit identity theft and defraud Medicare, according to Bloomberg.

A small clinical trial using gene therapy to improve immune system function in infants diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening immunodeficiency disease saw effective and promising results, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Here are 14 health information technology notes:

Venrock released its 2019 Healthcare Prognosis report, which included insights on the progress of artificial intelligence and blockchain within the industry.

IBM has discontinued the development and sales of its Watson for Drug Discovery product due to poor financial performance, according to STAT.

Although the company has faced backlash over the past six months for its popularity among young people, e-cigarette maker Juul is considering tapping into digital health, according to Business Insider.

Patients suffer treatment delays and are sometimes forced to undergo medical tests they have already completed when they switch providers, infectious diseases specialist Pranay Sinha, MD, wrote in WBUR.