Today's Top 20 Health IT Articles
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Kaiser notifies patients of breach, 3rd-party data sharing
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is notifying current and former patients that it shared information with third-party advertisers, TechCrunch reported April 25. -
Hospitals bulk up cybersecurity teams, budgets
Healthcare cybersecurity budgets and teams have grown significantly since 2019 as threats become more pronounced, according to an April 2024 report from Moody's Investors Service. -
Change Healthcare: Identifying stolen data will take months
UnitedHealth Group's Change Healthcare said it will take several more months to identify the personal data that was compromised from its Feb. 21 cyberattack, The Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 25. -
Why Emory is all in on Apple
Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare is the first health system in the U.S. to implement Epic on a large scale on Mac platforms, and the move has had substantial cost savings and environmental benefits, Scott Smiser, chief technology officer for the health system, told Becker's. -
8 health system finalists for digital marketing awards
Eight health systems were named finalists for PR Daily's 2024 Social Media & Digital Awards. -
Advocate to sell remote monitoring company it bought for $290M
Advocate Aurora Health, now part of Advocate Health, plans to sell a remote patient monitoring company it acquired for $290.7 million. -
Mass General Brigham: Generative AI not 'best of both worlds' yet
More than half of patient portal messages written by artificial intelligence did not require any further editing, but the messages that did posed a risk to patients, according to a study at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham. -
Tenet Healthcare must face Facebook lawsuit
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare has to face a class-action lawsuit claiming its patient portal shared data with Facebook and other third-party companies, Bloomberg Law reported. -
Epic says it rarely loses customers
EHR vendor Epic Systems broke ground on its newest campus and is continuing to grow its workforce and customers, The Cap Times reported April 25. -
FTC head raises alarm over algorithm-driven healthcare price fixing
Lina Khan, head of the Federal Trade Commission, cautioned about the risk of healthcare price fixing driven by advancements in technology, PYMNTS reported April 24. -
Optum shutting down telehealth business
UnitedHealth Group's Optum Virtual Care is shutting down, Endpoints News reported April 24. -
Cleveland Clinic eHospital expands to monitor 300,000 patients
Cleveland Clinic's eHospital program has expanded and now monitors 248 patient beds in ICUs and other units across the organization's network. -
Shortage of IT workers leaves hospitals vulnerable to cyberattacks
Cleveland Clinic's CEO said that cyberattacks pose a significant threat to health systems due to insufficient security measures across various departments and a shortage of IT personnel in hospitals, Ideastream Public Media reported April 23. -
Why nurses are protesting AI
Nurses took to the streets of San Francisco this week to protest the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. But what were their specific complaints? -
Oracle moving HQ to Nashville to be near healthcare industry
Oracle plans to move its world headquarters to Nashville, Tenn., to be amid a healthcare epicenter, according to co-founder and chair Larry Ellison. -
Novant Health launches 'hospital at home' with $2.7M donation
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health launched a hospital-at-home program thanks to a $2.7 million donation. -
HCA expanding use of AI automation tool
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare is expanding its use of an automated AI medical documentation tool to its network of emergency departments after a successful pilot. -
How healthcare's view of AI has shifted
Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2023, generative artificial intelligence has gathered buzz, with many healthcare workers, leaders and staff expressing concerns about using "unregulated" technology. But has this sentiment changed? -
Community Health Network to scale home-based care program
Indianapolis-based Community Health Network is working with technology company Biofourmis to scale its care-at-home services. -
HHS: No breach notification from Change
HHS said it has not received a breach notification from UnitedHealth's subsidiary Change Healthcare in the wake of the February cyberattack it suffered.
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