Health CIOs are working to get organizational buy-in on artificial intelligence projects as the difficulties of structuring and coalescing mass data is causing organizational confusion, The Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 5.

Nine out of 10 health system CIOs say their purchasing decisions are influenced by key opinion leaders and industry influencers, a survey by marketing agency Merritt Group found.

South Bend, Ind.-based University of Notre Dame is partnering with IT company Accenture to increase health equity through data analysis.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Ardent Health Services is rolling out remote patient monitoring across its 30 hospitals and 200 other care sites through a partnership with health tech company Cadence.

Richmond-based HCA Virginia Health System is rebranding several of its urgent care centers in Virginia and North Carolina.

Two employee email accounts associated with Plano, Texas-based Live Oak Surgery Center were compromised by an unauthorized third party, which in turn potentially caused the information of 5,264 patients to be viewed or taken. 

President Biden has signed the Strengthening VA Cybersecurity Act of 2022, which requires the Department of Veteran Affairs to obtain an independent audit of its IT systems and cybersecurity programs, FedScoop reported Jan. 4. 

An employee of the University of Miami Health System had their email account compromised by an unknown party, leading to some patient information possibly being obtained. 

Nearly half of ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations disrupted care delivery, a Dec. 29 study in JAMA Health Forum found.

Clop ransomware group has reportedly been infecting files that look like medical documents and subsequently requesting medical appointments in hopes of getting victims to open the malicious files, HHS warned in a Jan. 4 analyst note. 

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

The digital health world is constantly changing, and investors never know which startup will be next to hit unicorn status.

The former chief digital health and analytics officer of Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health has joined GE's new healthcare spinoff as its first chief technology officer.

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 new year began with a bang for GE HealthCare.

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.

From biotech to digital health, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, the venture capital arm of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson, has made a flurry of investments in an array of companies since Sept. 27.

Big tech layoffs at Twitter, Amazon and Meta grabbed headlines in 2022; the trend is continuing in 2023 as large tech firms continue to deal with an uncertain economic environment.

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

From automating clinicians' tasks to predicting disease, here are seven ways hospitals and health systems are using artificial intelligence to improve patient care: