University Park, Pa.-based Penn State College of Medicine built an Amazon Alexa skill to deliver care interventions to breast cancer patients in their own homes.

Adobe has teamed up with several healthcare players including Walgreens and Mercy Health to support their digital health and cloud platform services, according to an April 26 press release. 

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System partnered with Google Cloud and Miracle Software Systems to launch an international competition in Detroit to propose ideas for reducing health inequalities using technology, according to an April 27 news release.

Over the last year, hospitals and health systems have implemented major strategy shifts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, including adjusting budgets to ensure their systems could remain afloat. 

Modesto, Calif.-based Doctors Medical Center began notifying patients that a former vendor made patients' protected health information publicly accessible online since 2019.

IT employees have been experiencing burnout at increasing rates since the pandemic started, leaving CIOs to try out new digital tools and methods to alleviate some frustrations, according to an April 22 Wall Street Journal report.

Pharmaceutical startup Verge Genomics and clinical trial matchmaker Komodo Health are among nine healthcare companies recognized by Forbes for their artificial intelligence capabilities.

Here are four investments health systems recently made in digital health startups and internal innovation efforts.

Sapphire Community Health began notifying 4,000 patients about a ransomware attack that locked their files, making them unusable.

Apple's emergence into healthcare was made easier with a series of health IT acquisitions from 2016 to 2020. 

OSF HealthCare's computer systems went back online April 25 after a two-day outage sent the Peoria, Ill.-based health system into downtime procedures and protocols, the Journal Star reports. 

Colorado Springs-based Peak Vista Community Health Centers began notifying patients April 23 that their protected health information was recently exposed in a burglary incident. 

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health is the latest health system of among at least 40 affected by a cybersecurity breach on cancer care software company Elekta, according to an April 23 Fox61 report.

The pandemic accelerated "hospital at home" programs, which use remote monitoring and telehealth technologies to provide patients with hospital-level care without the risks and costs associated with hospital stays. 

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

Current Health, a remote care management platform, on April 22 closed a $43 million series B financing round.

Health IT companies hold 12 spots in the top 250 best-managed companies in 2020, according to a ranking by the Drucker Institute published in The Wall Street Journal.

The FDA and HHS are backtracking on previous plans to end regulatory review of 83 mobile health devices after determining the basis for the proposed plan was flawed.

Kathryn Metcalfe on April 22 became CVS Health's new senior vice president and chief communications officer.

Big Tech companies became the biggest in the industry by all following a similar pattern — acquiring hundreds of companies over decades, according to an April 21 report by The Washington Post.