The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking input on the security practices currently being employed by healthcare-covered entities and business associates.

The American Medical Group Association has entered a partnership with platform provider IKS Health to explore which tasks are necessary in the clinical workflow and create a plan to streamline provider operations, according to an April 6 news release. 

Englewood (N.J.) Health suffered a data breach in February that exposed 3,901 patients' information, the system said in a statement sent to Becker's on April 6.

The Food and Drug Administration, UC San Francisco and Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative created an EHR integration that aims to streamline health data for clinical research trials.

South Burlington-based University of Vermont Health Network connected three hospitals to Epic's EHR system, the health system announced April 6.

Most datasets used in clinical artificial intelligence papers come from the U.S. and China, casting worries about representation and diversity of data and subsequently AI accuracy, according to a study published March 31 in PLOS Digital Health. 

Some health systems in poorer countries are leveraging supply chain technology to get patients the care they need, and it could soon be used in the U.S. too, reported MIT Technology Review March 9. 

After becoming the federal government's first chief technology officer in 2009, Aneesh Chopra  took his expertise into the healthcare sector, becoming president of healthcare analytics company CareJourney. Here are three key quotes from an April 6 Politico interview exploring his thoughts on healthcare data and innovation:

Boston-based Mass General Brigham awarded Salem, Mass.-based North Shore Community Health a $150,000 grant to support the implementation of a new EHR system.

Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System participated in a $150 million series D funding round for Clarify Health, a cloud analytics and value-based payments platform.

President Joe Biden's $5.8 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2023, issued March 28, seeks hundreds of billions of dollars for cybersecurity measures. Here is a breakdown of the nine key budget requests that involve cybersecurity:

Epic CEO Judy Faulkner's net worth has exceeded $7 billion, a new personal high, according to Forbes.

Franklin, Tenn.-based Tivity Health has agreed to be acquired and taken private by Stone Point Capital, a private equity firm. 

Editor’s note: This blog was written in collaboration with Jenna Date, Chief Experience Officer at Allscripts. As CXO, Jenna leads the Allscripts Education, Design + Innovation team. Jenna’s personal mission is to lead Design for a compassionate world.

While most conversations about hospital innovation center around which new initiatives health systems have up and running, a less glamorous yet important piece of the conversation centers on which programs have been discontinued.

San Diego-based Rady Children's Hospital will provide home-based, outpatient physical therapy to patients.

Algorithms used to estimate risk of heart problems are performing poorly when applied to new populations, resulting in substantial risk of harm, according to a study published in Circulation April 5.

Five new health tech companies have joined the Real-World Evidence Alliance, a coalition of organizations that advocates for using real-world evidence to inform health tech policy.

GlaxoSmithKline has signed a multiyear partnership agreement with artificial intelligence-powered pathology company PathAI, according to an April 5 news release. 

The Moving Health Home coalition is working to acquire additional data and long-term solutions to establish a permanent hospital-at-home care program for patients in the wake of uncertainty as the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver may come to an end.