Allscripts has changed its name to Veradigm.

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.

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.

Lake Charles (La.) Memorial Health System said an October data breach affected 269,752 patients, the organization told the HHS Office of Civil Rights.

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.

Top healthcare systems across the country are constantly looking to hire new IT talent.

Laura Groschen, the former business unit CIO of Medtronic, has joined Franklin, Tenn.-based Acadia Healthcare Co., a behavioral health system, as its CIO.

Force Therapeutics, a digital remote monitoring and patient engagement platform, has gone live on the AWS Marketplace.

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.

Great Falls (Mont.) Clinic Hospital unveiled its new logo Jan. 3.

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.

Below are 10 hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking cybersecurity talent.

Digital data collection during routine clinical practice has become ubiquitous for hospitals and health systems, yet the archiving systems that store this data are often not designed to support research, according to Jan. 3. study published in Scientific Data. 

Three of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR incentive program are Oracle Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to ONC data. Here are 11 hospitals and health systems that have posted job listings seeking EHR and IT expertise in the last month.

Elon Musk made headlines with his acquisition of Twitter last year. But what are the odds he buys a healthcare company in 2023? And which one should it be?

CVS was predicted to be the top acquirer of healthcare companies in 2023, followed by Amazon and Optum, according to a recent survey by Health Tech Nerds. 

Ransomware attacks impacted more than 289 hospitals in 2022, BleepingComputer reported Jan. 2. 

Former Apple CEO John Sculley is joining the board of eternalHealth, a tech-focused Medicare Advantage licensed in Massachusetts.

A federal judge has granted Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health a temporary restraining order against a Texas healthcare data company, requiring it to return patient health information the health system had hired it to process and archive.

Global medtech and biotech investment fell from $133.8 billion in 2021 to $89.7 billion in 2022, according to investment data from dealroom.co.