Scripps Health websites are still down after a May 1 cyberattack, and patients are turning to Facebook to see if their appointments and surgeries are still on. 

Cerner CEO and Chair Brent Shafer will depart from his position, the Kansas City, Mo.-based EHR company said May 5. 

Forty-four healthcare providers including Hartford HealthCare and Yale New Haven Health have joined Connecticut's statewide health information exchange, which went live May 3, the CT Mirror reports.

Healthcare organizations don't need all new technology to revamp care — they can often optimize around the tools and resources they already have to determine where to add value and achieve their goals. 

A cardiologist would evaluate a patient's chest pain by listening to their heart and measuring their pulse and blood pressure, but as a psychiatrist, Daniel Barron, MD, PhD, evaluates a patient's symptoms the same way they were evaluated 100 years ago: by asking a patient what's wrong, according to an April 29 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.

More than 2 million mobile mental health apps have been developed, yet the effectiveness of these apps reaching their potential is understudied, according to an April 29 study published in JMIR Publications. 

Human-centered design is gaining traction in healthcare as patients demand a more convenient, seamless care process.

U.S. advertisers are on pace to spend $11.36 billion on streaming TV commercials in 2021, but some roadblocks are preventing companies from monitoring their target reach, according to a May 4 Bloomberg report.

More than 2 million people were affected by data breaches in April, nearly double the number affected in March.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a vendor to gather information on EHR design, data capabilities, delivery and acquisition planning, according to an April 29 contractor listing.

Collective Health, a digital employer health benefits startup, recently closed a $280 million series F financing round. 

CareCloud, a Miami-based EHR and practice management software provider, has agreed to pay $3.8 million to settle allegations that it paid illegal kickbacks to drum up sales of its EHR products, the U.S. Department of Justice said April 30. 

Toby Cosgrove, MD, former president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, has joined Providence's digital health spinout DexCare as a member of its board of directors. 

Scripps Health continues to operate on downtime procedures following a May 1 cyberattack that prompted the San Diego-based health system to take its patient services offline, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports. 

Flywire, a payment enablement software company, has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. 

Amazon recently posted job openings related to its health business.

From partnerships to acquisitions to lawsuits, here's the latest roundup of stories about health IT companies, including Google, Amazon and Cerner.

Cleveland Clinic rolled out an automated donor referral EHR tool in its hospitals to improve the identification and evaluation of potential eye, organ and tissue donors, the health system announced April 30.

CMS chose Austin, Texas-based health data analytics company ClosedLoop.ai and Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger as the winner and runner-up, respectively, of the agency's Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes challenge.

Palantir Technologies, the data analytics company that powers the COVID-19 data-reporting platform for HHS Protect, hired Bill Kassler, MD, as the company's first U.S. government chief medical officer.