Total Health Care began notifying 221,454 health plan members and physicians of a hacking incident on its employee email accounts.

Telehealth capabilities are limited since they do not have in-office features such as tools to measure vital signs. A team of researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle and Microsoft have developed a tool to change that.

As founder and CEO of Epic, Judy Faulkner has led the multibillion-dollar EHR giant to dominate the market space. 

Google recently posted several job openings related to its health business.

The COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected health system finances across the U.S., but Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health still plans on making key IT investments.

As the COVID-19 vaccination rollout continues to pick up steam across the U.S., the use of vaccine passports has left many concerned about health privacy protections.

Healthcare secured the spot as the most-represented industry among a grouping of the 100 most promising artificial intelligence startups in the world, according to a new CB Insights report.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health is expanding a program to equip COVID-19 patients' rooms with Amazon Echo Show devices, which feature two-way video calling capabilities that let clinicians check on patients via video, CNN reports.

Medicare Advantage programs and capturing hierarchical condition categories is a complex process that AI can help simplify, giving organizations the tools to improve both patient and provider experience. 

Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital will pilot AstraZeneca's new disease management platform to study how digital tools can improve patient engagement and care team coordination, according to an April 6 news release. 

Health systems have been increasingly adopting digital systems and tools in the past decade, and the pandemic has greatly expedited this trend. However, health systems aren't always prepared to address the cybersecurity risks these technologies can pose.

Four of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to ONC data.

The term "vaccine passport" has fueled political division, posing the need for an overhaul of the language used to describe COVID-19 vaccine verification, according to Brian Castrucci, DrPH, and Frank Luntz. 

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order April 5 banning the state and some businesses from requiring COVID-19 vaccine passports.

Amazon recently posted job openings related to its health business.

Hospital medicine and family medicine physicians are among the highest percentage of specialties that agree their IT vendor has developed a high quality EHR system, according to a recent KLAS Research and Arch Collaborative report.

The EHR's ability to support quality care and how well the organization has implemented their records system are two of the main drivers for both inpatient and ambulatory physicians' satisfaction with their EHR vendors, according to a recent KLAS Research and Arch Collaborative report.

At least seven healthcare organizations have confirmed they were affected in the nationwide data breach of file transfer vendor Accellion. 

In the last two years, 16 organizations reported to HHS that 118,470 individuals were affected by data breaches where laptops or other portable devices were stolen.

Health Net began notifying 1,236,902 members that their data was breached in a nationwide cyberattack.