GV, formerly known as Google Ventures, led a series A $35 million funding round for a digital health pharmaceutical company Waltz Health.

Cerner launched a registry that will collect data from patients diagnosed with Type 2 and Type 3 Gaucher disease, an autosomal recessive disease.

West Palm Beach, Fla.-based St. Mary's Medical Center provided a timeline to the cybersecurity incident that took down its phones and computers, WPTV NewsChannel 5 reported April 26.

In the last six months, several payers, providers and revenue cycle vendors began warning patients about data breaches that affected medical billing information. 

A Cedars-Sinai physician in Los Angeles is running a virtual reality initiative and is discovering how the new technology can be useful to those dealing with chronic pain, The New York Times reported April 26.

FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that the current scale of espionage and cybersecurity threats from China were "unprecedented in history," The Hill reported.

Cerner and Epic will work with the White House as part of an effort to increase access to COVD-19 treatments.

Although most patients want to use health and fitness wearable devices, cost, education and language remain as barriers, according to a study published April 15 in Nature. 

Cerner added and expanded relationships with more than 400 clients in 2021.

Epic gained more hospital contracts and beds than its competitors last year, according to KLAS Research's "U.S. Hospital EMR Market Share 2021" report.

Microsoft's $15 billion cybersecurity business is seeing a faster growth rate than all major parts of its company, CNBC reported April 26.

Tech millionaires in California are trying to raise money from other wealthy Californians to fund public health initiatives with the aim of preventing another pandemic, reported Kaiser Health News April 26.

After months of collecting sensitive health information in the form of vaccine passports and COVID-19 test results, organizations must decide what to do with the health data. 

Studies using smartwatches to detect, track and monitor COVID-19 and other illnesses are based on research that is underdeveloped, The Verge reported April 25.

Digital therapeutics and virtual care provider Biofourmis surpassed a $1 billion valuation when it closed a $300 million series D funding round April 26.

WhatsApp, the Meta-owned instant messaging company, launched a Spanish and English language chatbot to help spread reliable information about COVID-19 and the safety of its vaccines.

CVS Health is the second-largest healthcare company in the world, with a $141 billion market cap, according to an April 13 CB Insights report.

James Colbert, MD, has been named the senior vice president of care delivery for Memora Health, a digital health start-up.

Artificial intelligence software that can predict a patient's length of stay is too ad-hoc and is in need of a unified common framework, according to a new study published in PLOS Digital Health April 14. 

Cerner and the Department of Veterans Affairs will testify before a House VA subcommittee regarding the problems surrounding its EHR rollout, The Spokesman-Review reported April 25.