Johns Hopkins Medicine had the most trusted health system brand in the U.S., according to research released by branding agency Monigle.

Three hospitals formerly owned by Novant Health UVA Health System have been renamed to reflect the fact that Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Health became their sole owner July 1.

Ransomware attacks will continue to be a threat for organizations even as the federal government aggressively tries to stamp down hacker groups, The Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 5.

Cerner unveiled Oct. 6 that it is enhancing its revenue cycle management portfolio with a new patient accounting offering.

Hackers are demanding ransom from Johnson Memorial Hospital as the Franklin, Ind.-based health system grapples with an ongoing cyberattack, according to an Oct. 5 WTHR 13 report.

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

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released an insider risk mitigation toll Oct. 5 to help organizations assess the vulnerabilities of insider threats.

In 2012, Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla predicted that computers will replace 80 percent of physicians. A recently released FDA database has begun to track how much progress is being made on that prediction, Politico reported Oct. 6.

DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence startup, has turned a profit for the first time since its inception in 2010, according to an Oct. 5 CNBC report.

Five of the largest nonprofit health systems in California's Los Angeles County on Oct. 5 rolled out a health maintenance public service announcement campaign.

Commure, a health tech startup focused on connecting apps and data used by physicians and patients during the appointment process, named Ashwini Zenooz, MD, its new CEO, the company said in an Oct. 5 news release. 

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare began notifying patients Oct. 1 that their protected health information was exposed for more than six weeks during an attack on its IT systems earlier this year. 

A former patient of Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial HealthCare filed a class action lawsuit against Elekta over an April data breach that affected 170 health systems, according to court documents obtained by Becker's.

Lawmakers are concerned with the rocky rollout of the Department of Veterans Affairs' dollar supply chain modernization effort as the United States’ largest healthcare system simultaneously struggles with its $16 billion Cerner EHR implementation, according to an Oct. 5 Federal News Network report.

Several hospital and payer executives have left their roles to join digital health companies focused on virtual care and digital transformation since September.

Today's healthcare landscape in the U.S. is awash in patient data, but organizations are often unable to use that data to its fullest potential, because much of it remains locked within disparate systems. It is less of a problem in nations with standardized health IT systems. Despite the known merit in full interoperability, the U.S. has yet to reach that point.

Digital health startups raised $21.3 billion in the first three quarters of 2021, marking the sector's three highest-funded quarters ever, according to a report released Oct. 4 by Rock Health, a venture fund dedicated to digital health.

Graphite Health, a nonprofit focusing on healthcare interoperability challenges, was launched Oct. 5 by Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, St. Louis-based SSM Health and Albuquerque, N.M.-based Presbyterian Healthcare Services.

Researchers from the Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine, New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Aurora-based University of Colorado School of Medicine launched a study to gauge clinician attitudes toward expanding patients' access to their medical records, according to a study published in Nature on Oct. 5.

It took just two minutes for hackers to breach a hospital's network and deploy ransomware on Franklin, Ind.-based Johnson Memorial Health, according to an Oct. 4 Daily Journal report.