MyChart messages declined at San Francisco-based UCSF Health after the health system started billing for them, though clinicians rarely charge patients for them, a JAMA study found.

Google recently posted several job openings related to its health business. Below are five open positions as of Jan. 10:

For years the tech sector was booming and companies within the industry were expanding, but massive tech layoffs have been making headlines in the past few months as the industry weathers an uncertain economy, The Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 8. 

Days after announcing a mass layoff, Carbon Health secured $100 million in series D funding from CVS Health Ventures Jan. 10.

Primary care disruptor VillageMD, which is majority owned by Walgreens Boots Alliance, has appointed Stuart Levine, MD, as its president of value-based care. 

Black and Hispanic patients were less likely to use or be offered patient portals compared to white patients, Politico reported Jan. 9. 

DNA sequencing company Illumina and Nashville Biosciences, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center, are working with biopharmaceutical company Amgen to whole-genome sequence approximately 35,000 DNA samples from a mostly African American cohort.

New York City-based NYU Langone Health has spun off a cancer therapeutics company thanks to a $30 million investment in the startup.

Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are among the hospitals and academic institutions testing artificial intelligence-powered tech solutions to help with in-home care of diseases such as Alzheimer's and dementia.

Northwell Holdings, the venture capital arm of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, and EHR vendor Veradigm (formerly Allscripts) are among the funders pouring $45 million into data analytics company Holmusk.

Software developer is the best job of 2023, according to a Jan. 10 U.S. News & World Report analysis of growth potential, work-life balance and salary.

LeanTaaS, a healthcare software and analytics company used by 150 health systems, has acquired Hospital IQ, a healthcare workflow automation company, creating a combined company valued at more than $1 billion. The Hospital IQ acquisition comes after Bain Capital provided LeanTaaS with growth capital in June 2022.

Funding for digital health startups was down by about half in 2022, with $15.3 billion in deals compared to $29.3 billion in 2021, a Jan. 9 report by Rock Health found.

Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health has launched a home healthcare company as the first startup from its new digital health incubator.

CVS Health is in talks with Oak Street Health, which runs primary care centers for Medicare recipients, about a possible acquisition, Bloomberg reported Jan. 9. 

Despite a murky economic forecast, 60 percent of healthcare and life science investors are looking to increase their merger and acquisition activity in 2023, according to a new report from KPMG.

Starting Jan. 1, employers in California and New York were required to disclose salary ranges in their job postings. Here are the companies with the highest maximum salary range for software engineers, according to data compiled by compensation platform Comprehensive.io.

The venture capital arms of CVS Health, Cigna, Humana and Houston-based Memorial Hermann participated in a $375 million funding round for Monogram Health, an in-home healthcare company specializing in providing care and benefit management services to patients with polychronic conditions. 

At-home diagnostics company Cue Health is laying off 388 employees, or about 26 percent of its workforce, to adjust to changing economic conditions, the firm said in an SEC filing.

Virgin Pulse, the digital health arm of conglomerate Virgin Group, named former CVS Health leader Jeffrey Jacques, MD, as its chief medical officer.