Top-performing CIOs are more likely than their peers to prioritize growth, customer experience and investment in such technologies as artificial intelligence and cloud computing, according to Forbes Research.

An emergency room physician at OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Ill., won the health system's inaugural Innovator of the Year award for advancing a handheld ultrasound technology.

El Segundo, Calif.-based Pipeline Health extended its contract with Altera Digital Health to use its Paragon EHR system.

Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner says the EHR vendor is able to run successful user group meetings without the aid of alcohol or golf.

Hybrid primary care company Carbon Health is airing a dispute with Anthem Blue Cross of California, alleging the payer has denied all out-of-network claims for services provided to members.

John Brownstein, PhD, chief innovation officer of Boston Children's, told Becker's that the organization is hiring a prompt engineer to work on large language models such as ChatGPT so that it can identify use cases and train its workforce on the most appropriate uses for the emerging technology. 

Former executives from Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare and retail pharmacy giant Walgreens were among the entities that joined in a $15 million investment round for medtech company Kinnos.

Three of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR incentive program are Oracle Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to ONC data. Here are 10 hospitals and health systems that have posted job listings seeking EHR and IT expertise in the last month.

Boston-based Tufts Medicine has partnered with digital workforce platform meQuilibrium to help its workforce with emotional health and well-being. 

Cleveland-based MetroHealth System is joining the Guardian Research Network, a national consortium of healthcare organizations that uses a data collection and warehousing system to gather information on hundreds of thousands of patients.

Medical technology company Masimo did not convince a jury that Apple hired away key executives and stole trade secrets from its company, Fortune reported May 1. 

Cue Health, a health tech company that offers at-home diagnostics and telehealth, plans to lay off 30 percent of its workforce, or 326 employees, according to a securities filing.

A woman suing Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network has dropped her request to compel the health system to pay $5 million in ransom to a cybercriminal gang to have her nude breast cancer treatment photos removed from the internet, The Wall Street Journal reported May 2.

Health systems nationwide are looking to outfit their EHRs with the latest tech. 

Even as the tech industry experiences waves of layoffs, top healthcare systems across the country are looking to hire IT talent.

CVS Health has completed its $10.6 billion acquisition of primary care company Oak Street Health. 

The digital health market can be turbulent, and some companies have made recent cuts.

A report from Fortified Health found that 78 percent of healthcare data breaches in 2022 were from hackers, up from 45 percent in 2018, SecurityIntelligence reported May 1.

Healthcare innovation firm Patient Square Capital launched medtech incubator Elevage Medical Technologies with $300 million to invest.

Executives at Peoria, Ill-based OSF HealthCare say their $50 million medical simulation and innovation center has brought a return on investment of much more than that — and helped advance healthcare in ways that haven't been realized yet.