The White House is exploring regulatory actions that would hold social media companies liable for publishing false information that can cause people harm, such as misinformation on COVID-19 vaccines, CNBC reported July 20. 

Saurabha Bhatnagar, MD, has left his role as CMO of UnitedHealthcare to head up health initiatives at Commure, a health tech startup focused on connecting apps and data used by physicians and patients during the appointment process. 

Cerner's leadership team has undergone several changes this year, with four executive departures reported in July. 

Below are five organizations that announced plans to implement a new EHR or deployed a new system in the last 30 days:

Here are seven recent health IT vendor contracts and go-lives accelerating digital transformation efforts at healthcare organizations. 

More than 200 Amazon Echo devices have been donated to Calcutta Health Care Center in Ohio for patients and nurses to use for better communication across the facility, according to a July 16 WKBN report. 

Chief information officers at companies worldwide accelerated the launch of digital programs to respond to the changing needs of their organizations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. However, these imperfect programs could incur debt to retroactively fix, according to a July 16 report by The Wall Street Journal.

Federal officials warned businesses that hackers backed by the Chinese government are aggressively targeting medical institutions to steal data, personally identifiable information and emerging technologies.

Brass Valley, Calif.-based Sierra Nevada Family Care Physicians began notifying patients that months' of their data had been recovered after police searched a suspect's vehicle during a May arrest.

Signify Health, a healthcare technology company that provides in-home care and management services, welcomed former Cerner executive Sam Pettijohn as its new chief growth officer, the company said July 19. 

President Joe Biden called out social media platforms including Facebook for allowing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation to spread on its services, which he claims has resulted in the deaths of Americans, CNBC reported July 16. 

The U.S. government has launched a website to provide resources to protect hospitals and other businesses from ransomware attacks.

Advocate Aurora Health and Intermountain Healthcare are two of the latest health systems to report having been affected by a cybersecurity breach of cancer care software company Elekta. 

In his first advisory, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, urged technology and social media companies to "take more responsibility" to combat the proliferation of online health misinformation. YouTube has a plan to do just that, Garth Graham, MD, the director and global head of healthcare and public health partnerships at Google and YouTube, told Becker's.

Jason Szczuka became Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health's first chief digital officer on June 28, and he brings a wealth of payer experience to the role. 

More than a decade ago, IBM's Watson supercomputer was at the forefront of artificial intelligence and cloud computing innovation, but now the company's hold appears to be dimming in industries like healthcare, according to a July 16 New York Times report. 

Health outcomes and artificial intelligence technology company OM1 recently raised $85 million to expand its data cloud and clinical registries platform, the company said July 16. 

Here are six health systems that recently posted job listings seeking chief medical information officers.

MajorBoost, a new health tech company that focuses on issues such as health insurance reimbursement, launched July 15. 

Here are nine hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking CIOs.