The U.S. government is a significant player in the health IT market, and as the recent Oracle Cerner VA rollout shows, it needs reliable tech just as much as any hospital or health system.

Health data platform Zus Health has closed on $40 million in new financing and partnered with primary care technology platform Elation Health.

The FDA has updated its guidance on using EHRs and electronic signatures in clinical trials to account for technological advances since the agency last updated its guidance in 2017, RegulatoryFocus reported March 15.

UnityPoint Health Ventures, the venture capital arm of West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health, is participating in a $15 million funding round for telehealth platform OpenLoop.

South Bend, Ind.-based Beacon Health System is notifying 3,117 patients that some of their personal information may have been accessed by an unauthorized employee who viewed patient records outside the scope of their job duties. 

Wright-Patterson (Ohio) Medical Center will transition to the MHS Genesis EHR system on June 3. 

Artificial intelligence isn't just being used to improve patient care or streamline hospital administrative functions. It has entered the marketing department as well.

An Oscar gala hosted by comedian Byron Allen has raised millions of dollars for Children's Hospital Los Angeles, TheGrio reported.

More than 4.2 million patients were affected in the largest data healthcare data breach reported so far in 2023, HIPAA Journal reported March 15.

Jelly Bean Communications Design, which hosted and maintained a federally funded Florida children's health insurance website, agreed to pay a $293,771 settlement to resolve allegations it provided deficient security controls to Florida Healthy Kids Corp., SC Media reported March 15.  

Healthcare organizations lack the technical skills, bandwidth and staff to deploy and scale artificial intelligence into their clinical workflows, VentureBeat reported March 15. 

CVS Health Ventures led a $20 million series A investment round for SpectrumAI, a company working to create digital tools for clinicians treating autism with applied behavior analysis.

Data exfiltration was a factor in 70 percent of ransomware incidents affecting healthcare organizations, a March 9 brief from HHS' Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center found.

As artificial intelligence begins to proliferate in healthcare, health system digital leaders told Becker's it will only ever be able to do so much.

Remote monitoring helped control the blood pressure of hypertension patients from Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham, according to a study in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

The Department of Veterans Affairs confirmed that the Oracle Cerner EHR system caused six incidents of "catastrophic harm" to veterans, and four of those incidents led to the death of patients, The Spokesman-Review reported March 15. 

Perspectum, a precision medicine company specializing in medical imaging, received $19 million in the second close of its series C financing round.

The UCSF Rosenman Institute, the innovation arm of San Francisco-based UCSF Health, named Welfie and Moving Analytics as its Adapt program awardees.

Medical device giant Medtronic joined in a $25 million financing round for Fire1, a remote monitoring company focusing on heart failure.

Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures helps clinicians from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine bring their digital health ideas to market, Technical.ly reported.