The Government Accountability Office denied a pair of protests, allowing consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton to continue work as the program manager on an $860 million task order implementing the Department of Veterans Affairs' Oracle Cerner EHR system, Washington Technology reported Jan. 12.

Data analytics company Definitive Healthcare is laying off about 55 employees after hiring aggressively in recent years and expecting continued growth, according to a Jan. 12 securities filing.

The National Institutes of Health has decided to separate its CIO position and the director of Center for Information Technology role into two positions, Federal News Network reported Jan. 12.

New research from Netskope, a cybersecurity company, found that 400 cloud applications delivered malware in 2022, tripling the number of distinct cloud applications that delivered malware in 2021. 

The digital health market is constantly changing, with startups coming on to the scene and more established companies restructuring their strategies.

CVS Health has named Sam Khichi as the company's new chief policy officer, executive vice president and general counsel.

TV personality Martha Stewart is helping Pfizer promote its COVID-19 vaccine. 

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health plans to roll out virtual nurses at its hospitals around the state of Michigan — and nationwide.

Baptist Health Foundation received a $2 million donation from international insurance company BMI to roll out Baptist Health's digital patient smart TV and engagement system.

Several health system leaders have been named to College of Healthcare Information Management Executives boards overseeing health IT, cybersecurity and data analytics, the organizations said Jan. 12.

Hospitals and health systems are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence, but researchers fear that these tools face a reproducibility crisis, according to a Jan. 9 article from Nature. 

Below are hospitals and health systems that have announced name changes or other rebranding efforts since Dec. 21:

David Houghton, MD, system chair for telemedicine and chief of movement and memory disorders at New Orleans-based Ochsner Health will join The American Medical Association's Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group.

New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian's "Stay Amazing" campaign has released a one-minute ad detailing the story of a patient who suffered a stroke weeks before his wedding date, MM+M reported Jan. 12. 

An artificial intelligence-based model, dubbed Sybil, was able to accurately predict the risk of lung cancer for individuals with or without a significant smoking history. 

Here are the 20 top-paying companies for midcareer software engineers, according to a Jan. 12 analysis by career marketplace Dice.com of data from crowdsourcing compensation site levels.fyi.

Self-insured employers who use the Transcarent health platform will now have access to virtual second opinions from Cleveland Clinic specialists.

The newly spun-off GE HealthCare entered into an agreement to acquire IMACTIS, a developer of CT interventional guidance technology.

Implementing a new EHR can generate big time costs for hospitals and health systems, with some spending hundreds of millions to even more than a billion dollars on rollouts.

Epic has become a major player in the EHR and medtech industry. The company is looking to hire top-of-the-line software engineer talent.