Noting that she's been dubbed the "most powerful woman in healthcare," marketing agency C2 Communications named Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner one of its five inspirational women in business.

Mountain View, Calif.-based El Camino Health is using a wireless wearable device to monitor blood flow in real time.

U.S. hospitals and health systems are facing significant financial problems, which is leading them to scale back investments in technology, Politico reported March 15. 

From generative artificial intelligence projects to tech partnerships with Best Buy, here are 21 hospital and health system innovation projects Becker's reported on in the past month.

With the rise of generative artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT and social media platforms like TikTok, concern about the potential spread of misinformation in healthcare continues to grow. Health system leaders told Becker's they're using clinicians, social media trends and their marketing teams to drive the creation of factual content for consumers and patients.

San Bernardino, Calif.-based Regal Medical Group is facing 11 lawsuits for a December ransomware attack that compromised the protected health information of 3.3 million patients, Bloomberg Law reported March 14. 

Google is developing an updated version of its medical large language model so that it answers health questions more accurately, CNBC reported March 14. 

Rochester, N.Y.-based UR Medicine Highland Hospital is integrating Medaptus' physician assignment software Assign into its Epic EHR system. 

Venture capital firm General Catalyst is leading a $25 million series A funding round for a home health company co-founded by the former chief innovation officer of Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger.

Google Health is launching a suite of open source tools to help developers build digital health apps. 

A ChatGPT update released March 14 has been stunning physicians with its ability to deliver sound medical advice, The New York Times reported.

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health filed a data breach notice with the Massachusetts attorney general March 9 after it learned that some patient information was compromised as a result of unauthorized access, JDSupra reported March 14.  

Tech giant and Facebook parent company Meta announced plans to lay off another 10,000 workers after the company laid off 11,000 in November, CNN reported March 14.

Top healthcare systems across the country are constantly looking to hire new IT talent.

Medical device and software company Zoll Medical disclosed that it suffered a data breach affecting 1,004,443 people, according to a March 10 data breach notification with the Maine Office of Attorney General.

French digital health startup Nabla is getting in on the GPT craze as it launches Copilot, a GPT-3 based tool used as a Chrome extension to transcribe patient conversations with clinicians, TechCrunch reported March 14.

Biotech startup Science, a competitor with Elon Musk's Neuralink, launched Science Foundry, a platform allowing companies to use Science's tools to build medical devices, CNBC reported March 13.

Former health system CIO Ray Gensinger, MD, has joined health tech company Tegria as senior vice president and chief medical officer.

A Lehigh Valley Health Network patient whose nude photos were posted to the dark web by a Russian ransomware gang has sued the Allentown, Pa.-based health system, The (Allentown) Morning Call reported.

Hospitals and health systems are adding new software, tools and tech upgrades to their EHRs to build upon their systems' offerings.