IBM and Massachusetts Institute of Technology data scientists teamed up to create an artificial intelligence tool that generates questions to help healthcare professionals use EHRs more effectively and efficiently, according to their paper published June 6.

UPMC partnered with Microsoft to modernize and expand its analytics platform. 

Oracle and Microsoft have agreed to deepen interoperability of their clouds to allow users to run projects more easily across the two platforms, The Wall Street Journal reported July 20. 

Amazon has been posting new job openings related to its health business. Below are five positions the company recently posted:

Springdale, Ark.-based Northwest Health, is using the artificial intelligence system Periwatch Vigilance to monitor maternal health in three locations.

The HHS Office for Civil Rights data breach portal showed that there have been 337 healthcare data breaches impacting more than 500 individuals each in the first half of 2022, according to healthcare cybersecurity Fortified Health Security's mid-year report. 

Apple has released its first-ever report outlining its digital health strategy since the company created a function for users to store their medical records on Apple products eight years ago.

Primary care practice Benson (N.C.) Health has provided notice of a cyberattack involving an unauthorized party trying to access Benson Health's network.

Healthie, a company that provides a digital infrastructure platform to digital health companies, has closed on $16 million in fundraising.

Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health partnered with telehealth and remote patient monitoring Health Recovery Solutions to create a virtual health program for patients with congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension and post cardio-thoracic surgery patients. 

Intermountain Healthcare has automated its organ donor referral process. 

Brandon Eldredge, former chief clinical business officer at Boston-based Mass General Brigham, has joined health tech company PathAI as its new CFO. 

Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica reported that an email that was misrouted in May exposed the protected health information of 1,178 patients, according to WTVG 13, an ABC affiliate.

The federal government recovered $500,000 that two hospitals paid as ransom to North Korean hackers and plans to return the funds, according to a July 19 U.S. Justice Department statement.

Cincinnati Children's Hospital has partnered with Epistemic AI to use its artificial intelligence platform to research cystic fibrosis.

Columbus, Ohio-based tech startup Olive is laying off 450 employees, the Columbus Dispatch reported July 19. 

Mountain View Hospital in Idaho Falls has adopted the Monarch Platform from health technology and robotics company Auris Health to detect lung cancer, East Idaho News reported July 18.

Google comes out on top as the best voice assistant for answering medical questions and providing accurate information verbally to users, according to a study in the Annals of Family Medicine.

Patients' expectations of brands and organizations are shifting as they now look to health systems to take a stand on high-profile political and social issues. As a result hospital chief marketing officers are being tasked with developing their organization's response. 

Naperville, Ill.-based Edward-Elmhurst Health partnered with Memora Health, a technology platform for virtual care delivery and complex care management, to automate clinicians' routine care tasks.