CMS has awarded a $33 million contract to consulting and technology services company ICF to digitally modernize CMS' office of information technology.

Below are four health systems that launched a new Epic EHR system or announced plans to do so since June 16.

Washington, D.C.-based Children's National Hospital has implemented a code that signals staff to unplug or turn off internet-connected devices to mitigate cyberattacks, The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 3. 

Dozens of healthcare providers and health plans were affected by a data breach involving printing and mailing vendor OneTouchPoint.

The nonprofit that operates the country's organ transplant system uses outdated technology and may be vulnerable to security flaws, according to a July 31 Washington Post story.

Prescriptions for the opioid overdose-reversal drug naloxone have increased dramatically at Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine since the health system put a prescribing reminder in its Epic EHR, the vendor said in an Aug. 1 report.

Pear Therapeutics, a company that offers digital therapy programs by prescription, has let go of 9 percent of its workforce, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Dallas-based University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is expanding its informatics program to further the use of data to improve patient care and public health research.

The median ransomware payment in the second quarter of 2022 was $36,360, a 51 percent decrease from the first quarter, according to a report released July 28 by ransomware remediation firm Coveware.

Albuquerque, N.M.-based First Choice Community Healthcare notified patients Aug. 1 that a March data breach compromised the protected health information of patients.

Here are seven hospitals and health systems that have announced name changes or other rebranding efforts since June 9.

Some nurses are speaking up about what they see as the dangers of "hospital-at-home" programs, which they say can potentially harm patients, devalue the work of the nurse and can create inequalities amongst users.

Healthcare technology company Annexus Health has raised $33 million in a series B funding round. 

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute is spending $258 million on 26 new studies investigating mental health, heart health and chronic conditions; several of the studies will be designed to evaluate the effectiveness of telehealth services.

Researchers at DeepMind, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, have said they can predict the three-dimensional structure of nearly all known proteins using artificial intelligence, The Wall Street Journal reported July 28.

On July 28, Sen. Josh Hawley wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging it to look into Amazon's planned acquisition of One Medical. 

Healthcare accelerator Xleratehealth selected eight healthcare startups for their 2022 Louisville accelerator program.

Oracle has begun cutting U.S. jobs as part of a worldwide workforce reduction, according to Bloomberg.

Winchester, Va.-based healthcare system Valley Health is spending $50 million to install their own Epic EHR system, the Northern Virginia Daily reported August 1.

More than 92 percent of Americans do not want their health data sold and believe privacy is a right, according to a new survey from the American Medical Association.