Once a month, University of Missouri Health at Columbia clinicians attend an "EMR happy hour" session to troubleshoot issues regarding charting, documentation and ordering within the EMR, according to a study published in Annals of Family Medicine.

More hospital CFOs are taking on cybersecurity roles as well as being advocates for the purchasing of patient privacy solutions, a Black Book survey found.

Epic added Patientco, a patient payment technology company, to its App Orchard online marketplace.

Partners HealthCare's Biobank has surpassed 100,000 participants, making it one of the largest genetic databases in the U.S., the Boston-based health system announced July 8.

Here are five hospitals, health systems and other healthcare organizations that have appointed new chief data officers in the first half of 2019, beginning with the most recent:

Apple recently posted several job openings related to its health business.

HHS will grant $520,000 to community health centers across Montana to help with costs of health information technologies such as EHRs and telehealth services, Great Falls Tribune reports.

The U.S. Cyber Command took to Twitter last week to issue a warning about a 2-year-old vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook that is being exploited by hackers, according to the HIPAA Journal.

Smaller healthcare providers are more likely to struggle at following cybersecurity best practices while large healthcare providers tend to have mature, sophisticated defenses, according to a KLAS and CHIME study and cited by the HIPAA Journal.

Adopting a data-driven model may have greatly improved the decision-making abilities of many organizations, but evolving toward a decision-making process powered by artificial intelligence will generate even more success, according to the Harvard Business Review.

Researchers used a machine learning algorithm powered by a massive network of ordinary smartphones to identify and map out potentially cancer-beating molecules in various foods.

Machine learning analysis of clinical notes in the electronic health records of inpatients at psychiatric treatment centers was able to predict with significant accuracy the patients' risk of violence within four weeks of admission, according to a study published July 3 in JAMA Network Open.

Medtronic veteran Tracy Platt will serve as Cerner's new executive vice president and chief human resources officer, effective July 15.

OpenNotes, an international movement that supports the use of online patient portals to connect patients with their clinical notes, announced July 2 that more than 40 million patients now have access to notes written by their providers.

Renton, Wash.-based Providence St. Joseph Health will launch Microsoft Azure as well as some of the technology giant's artificial intelligence tools to help manage the health system's electronic health data.

Steve Posnack has been named deputy national coordinator of the ONC, effective Aug. 19.

A prediction model using machine learning to analyze EHR data showed a marked improvement over previous models to predict a patient's risk of contracting HIV within three years, according to a study published July 5 in The Lancet HIV.

Stephen Clark has been appointed the U.S. commercial lead for Healthy.io, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing a smartphone app for at-home urinalysis.

Facebook's Social Good team is looking to hire a director of health partnerships to develop an "ecosystem" of partners within the healthcare sector, according to a recent job listing.

IBM has partnered with three Australian financial services companies on a private blockchain release,  Lygon, according to bitcoin news website Coindesk.