When it comes to communicating with patients about medical misinformation they find on social media, Margot Savoy, MD, a family physician at Temple University, tries to gently inform patients and steer them to more reliable sources, she told Politico.

As providers look to alleviate social determinants of health barriers that affect patient care, hospitals and health systems are increasingly turning to digital tools and platforms to optimize resource referral networks, according to a recent KLAS Research report.

HIPAA protects a patient's personal health information, leaving many concerned that a vaccine passport would violate those protections.

In March, 36 organizations reported to HHS that 1,116,997 individuals were affected by data breaches.

Enterprise imaging in the cloud, which unifies access to clinical imaging and data across an organization, allows healthcare organizations to innovate, reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance patient care. 

As virtual care continues to evolve, remote patient engagement systems are no longer just a nice-to-have option for healthcare organizations; they're a must-have.

The identities of Humana employees have been used to file fraudulent unemployment claims, according to a March 30 News6 report.

The U.S. joined 13 other nations in releasing a statement March 30 raising "concerns" with a recent report from the World Health Organization about the origins of COVID-19. 

Apple Valley (Minn.) Clinic, part of Minneapolis-based Allina Health, recently transitioned to the health system's EHR platform following a ransomware attack on its tech services vendor that exposed nearly 158,000 patients' information. 

Below is a roundup of marketing campaigns recently launched by health systems, nonprofits and state and local governments.

From go-lives to its entrance in the life insurance business, here are six updates on Cerner's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in March.  

Here are seven notes on Meditech and its position in the EHR market:

Cybercriminals have exploited a weakness in encryption software and have used it to deploy Mamba ransomware into computers, according to a March 23 news release from the FBI.

Truveta, a new healthcare data analytics startup formed by 14 U.S. health systems, recently named Lisa Gurry as COO and Dave Heiner as chief policy officer and general counsel, according to a March 30 news release. 

Researchers from the University of Florida looked at dozens of studies on record-related burnout to come up with solutions, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Contrary to concerns that searching for medical diagnoses on the internet is harmful to patients, it can improve their ability to assess their symptoms, according to a March 29 study published in JAMA Network Open.

As retail and tech giants like Amazon, Walmart and Google continue to scale healthcare efforts, hospitals and health systems are left looking to compete not just with retaining patients, but keeping their IT and other employees, too.

Hospitals and healthcare companies are launching new campaigns and finding ways to better engage with patients in the digital world, but not all marketing efforts go off without a hitch.

Atlanta-based Woolfson Eye Institute alerted patients March 29 that a laptop computer hosting its patient database was stolen in September, potentially exposing patients' personal information. 

Cleveland Clinic and IBM have formed a 10-year partnership to create a joint accelerator center to advance healthcare discoveries using artificial intelligence and cloud computing technologies, the organizations announced March 30.