Today's Top 20 Health IT Articles
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Hacker steals files from Arkansas hospital
Patient and employee information was potentially compromised at Nashville, Ark.-based Howard Memorial Hospital after an unauthorized party accessed files from the hospital. -
Amazon will be the biggest threat to health systems' core business: Survey
Fifty-two percent of health tech experts surveyed by Health Tech Nerds, an informational platform focusing on healthcare business, said Amazon would be the biggest threat to health systems' core business in 2023. -
More than 112,000 patients affected by cybersecurity incident at Missouri hospital
Marshall, Mo.-based Fitzgibbon Hospital told HHS that 112,072 individuals were affected by a recent data security incident and said some patient data may have been stolen. -
Lab settles with HHS for $16.5K for not providing timely access to medical records
Life Hope Labs, a medical laboratory in Sandy Springs, Ga., has agreed to pay $16,500 to HHS to settle a complaint that it didn't provide timely access to patient health records. -
Salesforce to cut 10% of staff
Software giant Salesforce is cutting nearly 10 percent of its workforce after a COVID-19-fueled hiring boom that saw the company nearly triple its workforce in the past four years, Bloomberg reported Jan. 4. -
Mayo Clinic accelerator launches first startup in potential $750M deal
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic's cell and gene therapy accelerator has launched its first startup. -
Amazon lands $8B loan
Amazon obtained an $8 billion unsecured loan after a challenging year in 2022, according to Reuters. -
Viatris closes acquisition of 2 life sciences companies
Healthcare company Viatris closed its $415 million acquisition of Oyster Point Pharma and its $280 million acquisition of Famy Life Sciences. -
Allscripts rebrands as Veradigm
Allscripts has changed its name to Veradigm. -
South Carolina hospital adds robot dietitian
Orangeburg, S.C.-based Regional Medical Center has instituted a robot dietitian that roams the hospital to provide nutrition counseling to patients, The Times and Democrat reported Jan. 2. -
Study: Healthcare ransomware attacks doubled in five years
The annual number of healthcare ransomware attacks more than doubled from 2016 to 2021, threatening patient safety and outcomes, a Dec. 29 study in JAMA Health Forum found. -
Nearly 270,000 patients affected by data breach at Louisiana health system
Lake Charles (La.) Memorial Health System said an October data breach affected 269,752 patients, the organization told the HHS Office of Civil Rights. -
CDC looks to EHR data to determine effectiveness of vaccines
The CDC is calling for vendors to provide white papers on utilizing EHR data to determine the effectiveness of vaccines against respiratory diseases, like COVID-19, Govexec reported Jan. 3. -
IT job openings at SSM, Sutter and Northwell
Top healthcare systems across the country are constantly looking to hire new IT talent. -
Former Medtronic CIO joins behavioral health system
Laura Groschen, the former business unit CIO of Medtronic, has joined Franklin, Tenn.-based Acadia Healthcare Co., a behavioral health system, as its CIO. -
Patient engagement platform partners with AWS
Force Therapeutics, a digital remote monitoring and patient engagement platform, has gone live on the AWS Marketplace. -
Microsoft works to train AI cardiac prognosis tool on more diverse data set
Microsoft is partnering with Apollo Hospitals, a Chennai-based Indian hospital chain, to train its artificial-intelligence-powered cardiac prognosis model on a dataset of South Asian patients, Analytics India Magazine reported Jan. 3. -
Montana hospital unveils new logo
Great Falls (Mont.) Clinic Hospital unveiled its new logo Jan. 3. -
Amid an economic downturn, health system marketing execs are shifting their strategy
As the healthcare industry continues to deal with a post-pandemic recovery that has been fraught with provider and staffing shortages, it is now dealing with an economic downturn that seems unavoidable. This means marketing leaders will have to pivot their marketing strategy in 2023 to this new normal. -
10 hospitals, health systems seeking cybersecurity talent
Below are 10 hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking cybersecurity talent.
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