Gainesville-based Northeast Georgia Health System recently partnered with local nonprofit Good News Clinics to provide an integrated Epic EHR system for the organizations.

Four of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to 2018 ONC data.

Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth launched a newsroom featuring expert information about the pandemic so news outlets could have quick access to reliable updates.

Analyst firm CB Insights included four health technology companies in its annual list of 50 companies expected to reach a value of $1 billion.

In the past year, Apple has increased its healthcare presence by expanding its product capabilities and partnering with leading health centers and research institutions.

Optum Ventures led a recent funding round for DocASAP, an advanced patient access and engagement platform.

IT leaders expect their budgets to bounce back, and in some cases increase, during the second half of 2020, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

The email account of an employee at Oswego (N.Y.) Health was compromised June 16 by someone not associated with the health system.

New York City-based health systems Mount Sinai and NYU Langone Health have partnered with Curb, a mobile platform for taxi and for-hire rides, to transport healthcare workers and patients during the pandemic. 

A team of Tampa-based University of South Florida researchers is using wearable technology to study the human body's physiological response to COVID-19 and develop a system to identify patients at risk of severe infection. 

Edentech is proud to announce the release of SecureRecalls.com, its newest component in the Care, Safe & Secure Suite.

Health Care Service Corp., the Chicago-based parent of five Blue Cross and Blue Shield health plans, tapped Epic to launch a new health information exchange platform between insurers, providers and patients.

A data security incident involving Care New England's computer system caused the Providence, R.I.-based health system's website to experience downtime on June 16, local CBS affiliate WPRI reports.

The National Institutes of Health will use its "All of Us" precision medicine research database to power COVID-19 initiatives including antibody testing, online surveys and EHR data collection.

The University of California, Davis named the winners of its 2020 Chancellor's Innovation Awards June 15, highlighting its faculty and community partners' achievements in healthcare innovation.

Companies often experience growth as a result of a steady flow of small changes over time rather than standalone breakthroughs, according to recent analysis from Fast Company.

As Intermountain Healthcare's new CIO, Ryan Smith is focused on securing a reputation for his IT team over the next year as an integral player that helps drive innovation and fiscal stewardship, among other efforts, across the Salt Lake City-based health system.

Seventy percent of CIOs and digital health executives are concerned about meeting the upcoming Nov. 2 deadline for ONC's information blocking provisions, according to a June 15 College of Healthcare Information Management Executives survey.

San Francisco-based Alpha Health received $20 million in Series A funding, the company reported June 10.

Kaiser Permanente's computer system experienced five hours of downtime on June 14, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.