Village Plastic Surgery has agreed to pay $30,000 to settle a potential violation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule's Right of Access standard.

From go-lives to its collaboration with Humana, here are six updates on Epic's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in March.

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough recently shared with lawmakers his concerns about the productivity of the VA's Cerner EHR transition and potential of the $16 billion project going over budget, according to a March 29 FedScoop report.

Here are four investments health systems recently made in innovation-focused startups, internal projects and venture funds.

Cerner is maintaining a strong standing in the EHR market, posting a 47 percent increase in net earnings from 2019 to 2020.

The pandemic continues to reinforce the need to improve the patient-physician experience, quality of care and financial outcomes, with artificial intelligence-powered solutions shown to do so.

Here are eight recent health IT vendor contracts and go-lives accelerating digital transformation efforts at healthcare organizations.

Lexington (N.C.) Medical Center, part of Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Health, recently began notifying some patients that their protected health information was exposed during a security breach on its former vendor Healthgrades' platform. 

Ochsner Health and Xavier University of Louisiana, both based in New Orleans, are teaming up on new graduate education programs that aim to accelerate medical technology careers in healthcare.

Amazon has received emergency use authorization from the FDA for its COVID-19 testing kits, made by Amazon subsidiary STS Lab Holco.

The U.S. government is working to create secure ways for vaccinated Americans to prove their inoculation status and begin their return to normalcy. However, questions remain about how these digital vaccine credentials will be developed, made accessible and used. 

The U.S. Justice Department will take a closer look at UnitedHealth Group's proposed acquisition of Change Healthcare, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing cited by Bloomberg.

Errors in self-administered medication can be mitigated by a new artificial intelligence tool that can monitor wireless signals in a patient's home, according to a March 18 study published in Nature Medicine.

Within six months of implementing a new EHR system at two urgent care clinics, clinicians' cognitive workloads more than doubled, according to a study published in Applied Ergonomics.

The World Health Organization issued a warning to consumers March 26 to beware of fake COVID-19 vaccines that are being sold on the dark web, CNBC reports.

Here are six quick notes on Allscripts and the EHR market:

Here are eight recent partnerships between healthcare organizations and big tech companies including Amazon, Apple and Google. 

CI Security has been selected by the American Hospital Association as a preferred provider in a newly formed initiative to increase protection for hospitals against cybercriminals.

Telehealth visits dramatically increased during the pandemic, according to a March 23 cohort study of 36.6 million people published in JAMA Network Open.

University of Miami is investigating a data breach that may have exposed the information of patients belonging to the Coral Gables, Fla.-based university's health system, according to a March 26 South Florida Sun Sentinel report.