As retail pharmacy chains rely on automated technology to fill prescriptions, a group of physician leaders is waving a red flag, stating that this technology has serious consequences for patient safety and the future of pharmacy.

Behavioral health startup Concert Health on April 27 closed a $42 million series B funding round. 

Paying the ransom to hackers to resolve ransomware attacks has become more difficult as the U.S. continues to levy sanctions against Russia and Russian-associated entities, The Wall Street Journal reported April 28.

The two most pressing challenges in health tech are privacy and the integration of AI, said Micky Tripathi the national coordinator for health IT at HHS. Mr. Tripathi spoke to Politico about the challenges ahead for integrating more technology into the U.S. healthcare system in an interview published April 27.

Throughout the pandemic the health tech start-up space saw a considerable bump in interest and capital, but as the health crisis slows so has the investment, reported TechCrunch April 26.

Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health teamed up with mobile health service provider DocGo to transport the first patient in their zero-emissions ambulance.

Hospital executives agree that having a strong digital health strategy is important to achieving key objectives, but many struggle to efficiently evaluate and implement digital health products and services, according to a report released April 26 by digital health marketplace Panda Health.

Walla Walla, Wash.-based Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center's Cerner EHR system faced two outages in two days, FedScoop reported April 26.

GV, formerly known as Google Ventures, led a series A $35 million funding round for a digital health pharmaceutical company Waltz Health.

Cerner launched a registry that will collect data from patients diagnosed with Type 2 and Type 3 Gaucher disease, an autosomal recessive disease.

West Palm Beach, Fla.-based St. Mary's Medical Center provided a timeline to the cybersecurity incident that took down its phones and computers, WPTV NewsChannel 5 reported April 26.

In the last six months, several payers, providers and revenue cycle vendors began warning patients about data breaches that affected medical billing information. 

A Cedars-Sinai physician in Los Angeles is running a virtual reality initiative and is discovering how the new technology can be useful to those dealing with chronic pain, The New York Times reported April 26.

FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that the current scale of espionage and cybersecurity threats from China were "unprecedented in history," The Hill reported.

Cerner and Epic will work with the White House as part of an effort to increase access to COVD-19 treatments.

Although most patients want to use health and fitness wearable devices, cost, education and language remain as barriers, according to a study published April 15 in Nature. 

Cerner added and expanded relationships with more than 400 clients in 2021.

Epic gained more hospital contracts and beds than its competitors last year, according to KLAS Research's "U.S. Hospital EMR Market Share 2021" report.

Microsoft's $15 billion cybersecurity business is seeing a faster growth rate than all major parts of its company, CNBC reported April 26.

Tech millionaires in California are trying to raise money from other wealthy Californians to fund public health initiatives with the aim of preventing another pandemic, reported Kaiser Health News April 26.