Today's Top 20 Health IT Articles
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Health system chief marketing officer's top priorities
From retention, loyalty and enrichment of current clients to creating a strong correlation and interconnectedness between brand experience, customer experience and employee experience, chief marketing officers are the C-suite executives required to embrace change and put patients front and center. -
3 top current marketing trends in light of the economic slowdown
Resiliency of small businesses, a branding slow down and naturally declining growth are all key trends hitting the marketing industry as the labor market closes and the economy shows signs of slowing, The Wall Street Journal reported July 8. -
Google looks to spin off ad-tech business
Google is seeking to split off its advertising business into a separate company under its parent entity, Alphabet, to avoid a second antitrust lawsuit from the Justice Department, The Wall Street Journal reported July 8. -
Lawmakers introduce new bills to protect health data
Lawmakers at both the federal and state level are bringing bills to the table that focus on protecting healthcare data in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned, CNBC reported July 9. -
Digital health funding slows amid investment uncertainty
Digital health funding fell in the first half of 2022, according to a July 10 report from Rock Health, a seed fund that supports digital health startups. -
Tech hiring slows
Hiring for technology positions grew at a slower pace in June, at a time when many tech executives fear a coming recession, according to a July 10 Wall Street Journal story. -
AI, radiologists working together more accurately detect breast cancer: Study
Radiologists working in tandem with artificial intelligence more accurately detect breast cancer than either of them analyzing the images alone, a July study in The Lancet Digital Health found. -
Hospital for Special Surgery CISO joins podcast network
Cybersecurity podcast network CyberWire has announced that Vikrant Arora will join its panel the Hash Table. -
Atlantic Health System CEO joins health tech investment firm
Brian Gragnolati, CEO of Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System, has joined healthcare investment firm Concord Health. -
Tower Health employee fired for record snooping, hospital says
Phoenixville (Pa.) Hospital has fired an employee for accessing patient medical records without authorization, the Reading Eagle reported July 8. -
Inspirna snags $50M in funding
Inspirna has raised $50 million in a series D financing round primarily led by Sands Capital and Vivo Capital. -
Weill Cornell Medicine-led consortium gets $8M for patient data network
A Weill Cornell Medicine-led consortium has snagged close to $8 million in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Funding to grow their Insight Clinical Research Network database. -
Healthcare Triangle to sell 6M shares for $6.5M
Healthcare Triangle is set to sell 6,097,561 shares of common stock to a single investor. -
Patient-billing startup Cedar lays off 24% of workforce
Cedar, a digital health startup that streamlines patient billing, has let go of 24 percent of its employees, a company spokesperson confirmed to Becker's. -
Penn Medicine receives grants for a trio of innovation projects
Three innovation projects from Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine's Center for Health Care Innovation were chosen to receive up to $200,000 each from health insurer Independence Blue Cross. -
Microsoft Cloud's VP departs after 21 years
Tom Keane, Microsoft's cloud vice president, is leaving the company after 21 years, Bloomberg reported July 6. -
Oracle Cerner addresses 'unknown queue' issue that caused harm to 148 veterans at the VA
Oracle's executive vice president sent a letter to VA leaders stating the company is examining its EHR system, including a feature that caused referral orders to effectively go missing at the Department of Veterans Affairs. -
House panel to investigate reproductive health data privacy
A U.S. House of Representatives panel plans to examine whether data companies and personal health apps are keeping patients' reproductive health data private in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, NBC reported July 8. -
Former Theranos COO convicted of fraud
Former Theranos COO Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani was convicted on 12 criminal fraud charges, CNBC reported July 7. -
38% of US patients use digital health options to receive care
Thirty-eight percent of U.S. patients utilized digital health options in May 2022, according to a July 7 collaborative report between Pymnts and CareCredit.