Arman Kilic, MD, director of the Schiller Surgical Innovation Center at the Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina, is working on 25 different projects that utilize artificial intelligence. 

Amazon said it plans to cut 18,000 jobs, a bigger number than the e-retailer initially said it would eliminate last year.

Below are five hospitals and health systems that posted job listings in the past month seeking chief medical information officers.

Forty-five percent of health tech experts predicted that two or fewer health tech companies will go public in the new year, and those predicted to go public mostly focus on enabling people to receive care and manage their conditions from their homes, according to a recent survey by Health Tech Nerds.

Google and DeepMind are lauching MedPaLM, an open-sourced large language model that exclusively addresses medical queries, Tech Times reported Jan. 4. 

Freehold, N.J.-based CentraState Medical Center is no longer diverting patients to other facilities after a Dec. 30 IT security issue caused the hospital to experience technical problems, but some outpatient services are still affected, Asbury Park Press reported Jan. 4. 

The email addresses used to register 235 million Twitter accounts have been leaked online by hackers, The Washington Post reported Jan. 4.

Jane Moran brought a range of IT leadership experience to Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham when she became its inaugural chief information and digital officer in September 2021.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has obtained a stake in Endiatx, a startup making a pill-sized robot to diagnose digestive conditions, under a know-how licensing agreement with the company.

Walgreens Boots Alliance reported a $3.7 billion net loss in the first quarter of the 2023 fiscal year ending Nov. 30, a significant drop from $3.6 billion in net income over the same period last year, driven by after-tax charges for opioid-related claims and litigation.

Inflationary pressures and a murky economic future are putting pressure on cybersecurity officials' relationship with their vendors, The Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 4.

Healthcare engagement platform Ostro closed on an additional $45 million in its series B financing round to bring its total funding to more than $55 million.

UPMC has created an innovation hub in its home base of Pittsburgh by greatly expanding its cancer research and precision medicine footprints, Pittsburgh Business Times reported Jan. 3.

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has been hit with a proposed class-action lawsuit over the recent ransomware attack on the health system.

Cleveland-based University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center selected medtech company RaySearch's digital treatment planning system, RayStation. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based Ardent Health Services named Brad Hoyt, MD, its chief medical information officer.

In 2022, OSF Innovation and OSF OnCall, the digital health divisions of Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare, launched 10 different initiatives using digital technologies and data with the aim of providing more convenient access and improved patient outcomes. 

Peter Micca, national health tech leader at Deloitte, is bullish about 2023 as healthcare technology stocks and venture capital funding are on the decline, Politico reported Jan. 3. 

Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health has partnered with data analytics company Nference to advance the academic health system's research and medical discoveries.

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health won two awards for its website and content produced for Sanford Fit, the health system's children's health initiative.