U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate health committee, urged HHS to move slowly with new interoperability rules, in the committee's hearing May 8 on implementing the EHR provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act.

Winston Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health created a digital health and engagement division to oversee its virtual healthcare experience and technology strategy, the system announced May 8.

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

ProMedica Coldwater (Mich.) Regional Hospital implemented an Epic EHR, WTVB reports.

CMS Administrator Seema Verma kicked off a campaign on Twitter to encourage people to share their personal experiences with health information interoperability.

TransformativeMed, a digital solutions developer that embeds specialized clinical workflows into EHRs, received $8.5 million in funding as part of its recent financing round.

The California Emergency Medical Services Authority granted Manifest MedEx, the state's nonprofit health data network, $4.9 million to create a health information exchange between emergency ambulance service providers and hospitals.

University of California San Francisco and the Doctors Company, a physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, launched a $1 million collaborative that aims to support research on patient safety and digital health.

Amid ongoing federal, state, private and internal investigations into genomic testing startup uBiome's billing practices, Federal Trade Commission records show that dozens of customers filed complaints about the company in recent months.

The use of a multiplatform app for back pain therapy resulted in greater pain reduction than participation in a standard physical therapy program, according to a new study published in npj Digital Medicine.

Google is developing a deep learning model that can detect early-stage lung cancer in CT scans up to a year before a trained radiologist's diagnosis, the tech giant announced at its annual I/O developer conference on May 7.

A mobile system that uses advanced machine learning to identify heart murmurs and connects to the cloud has been cleared by the FDA, Canadian health tech company eMurmur announced on May 7.

As healthcare information technology professionals become more confident in their ability to respond to a cyberattack, 24 percent remain steadfast in the decision to not pay a ransom, according to an Infoblox survey.

Hackers stole more than $40 million worth of bitcoin on May 4 from one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance, according to CNBC.

Blockchain's position as a top-five strategic priority for business executives is becoming more established, with 53 percent of executives identifying it as a priority. This is up from 43 percent in 2018, according to a Deloitte survey.

EHR vendor Practice Fusion, a subsidiary of Allscripts, received a grand jury subpoena in March in relation to an ongoing criminal investigation, Allscripts reported in a May 2 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

A deep learning model trained in mammography is able to predict the development of breast cancer up to five years in advance, according to a study published in Radiology on May 7.

The Connecticut Department of Social Services has selected HBI Solutions' Spotlight Analytics platform to provide analytical insights into the needs and overall health of the Medicaid population, HBI announced on May 7.

Skyhawk Therapeutics, a biotech company based in Waltham, Mass., and Tokyo-based pharmaceutical giant Takeda announced on May 7 that they will collaborate on the discovery and development of drugs to target neurological disease.

The National Institutes of Health's All of Us research program released an interactive data browser on May 6, the one-year anniversary of the program's launch.