Digitizing the patient experience to make it as convenient as online shopping or travel booking can help alleviate the labor shortages that have plagued healthcare, David Peterson, chief strategy officer for health IT consultant AccuReg, wrote March 23 in Medical Economics.

Tech companies' in-person work are facing pushback from employees who would rather find a new position than return to the office, The Wall Street Journal reported May 14. 

Physicians who own their practices are more satisfied with their electronic health records than physicians who don’t, an April 21 investigation in JAMA Network Open found.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers found that clinician assessment paired with automated machine learning could improve suicide risk detection in patients, according to a study published May 13 in JAMA Open. 

Hartford (Conn.) Healthcare and its networks have begun using an EMS communication app that allows EMTs to quickly upload patient information, symptoms, vital readings and severity of ailment and transmit it to the emergency room.

Gillette Children's Speciality Healthcare unveiled a new brand identity May 16. 

Researchers have been able to train a deep learning model to accurately predict a patient's race from just medical images, like X-rays and CT scans leaving researchers confused, reported the Boston Globe May 13.

Healthcare has faced rapid change in the last few years amid the pandemic, and digital transformation is not slowing down.

Information security analysts, who ensure security controls are in place, make an average of $113,270 annually, according to the latest data released March 31 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The market for primary care disruptors — retail clinics that typically have a hybrid menu of virtual and in-patient care — is being flooded with competitors, eMarketer reported May 16.

Amazon's subscription-based service that helps caregivers provide remote support to older loved ones now supports up to 10 caregivers and allows primary caregivers to set up routines. 

Following a law signed last year by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the California Health and Human Services Agency has started creating a health data exchange network that will give providers across the state real-time access to patient medical records, family physician Tarek Mahdi, MD, wrote May 16 in The Press-Enterprise.

A New York community health center recently notified patients of a hacking incident that left information like Social Security numbers and medical records exposed.

Managing cloud-based systems is central to the role of the modern CIO. Doing so effectively and securely goes a long way toward a smoothly running hospital system.

A Florida hospital is testing a new artificial intelligence-assisted technique for treating a drug-resistant heart condition.

Amanda Furr, MD, has been appointed national medical director of Chicago-based VillageMD.

A new study looks at what it will take to reduce bias in healthcare artificial intelligence.

A health tech coalition released a report May 11 on how the healthcare system can improve IT interoperability and data exchange.

Cybersecurity experts are concerned about the privacy of data from period tracking apps, worried that the information could be used against users, reported Kaiser Health News May 13.

Healthcare funding for artificial intelligence declined from $3.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021 to $2.5 billion in the first quarter of 2022, according to a May 12 report by tech market analytics firm CB Insights.