Christie Clinic in Champaign, Ill., will move its patients' medical records Oct. 1 to Urbana, Ill.-based Carle Clinic's Epic EHR system, The News-Gazette reports.

Casey Hossa, senior vice president and CIO of MultiCare Health System in Tacoma, Wash., shares the system's top IT focus areas.

David Reis, PhD, executive vice president and CIO of Hackensack Meridian Health, outlines his biggest headwind for 2020 — technology and data security — and how to turn it into a tailwind in the future.

Despite the fact that mobile advertising and in-app consumer spending are expected to reach $190 billion and $120 billion, respectively, in 2019, many organizations still have yet to factor in-app ads into their digital marketing strategy, Ad Age reports.

Pleasanton, Calif.-based biotechnology startup 10x Genomics went public on Sept. 12, opening on the Nasdaq Stock Market at a price of $39 per share.

The FBI released a Public Service Announcement on Sept. 10 alerting organizations and individuals to the massive increase in business email compromise, a form of wire fraud that has resulted in billions in losses in recent years.

UnitedHealthcare and Boulder, Colo.-based seed accelerator Techstars announced the first 10 startups to join their digital health innovation-focused accelerator program.

The FDA cleared GE Healthcare's Critical Care Suite, the first artificial intelligence-powered mobile X-ray device for triage of pneumothorax cases to receive marketing authorization from the agency.

Kshitij Saxena, MD, chief medical informatics officer at Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System, believes EHR customization requires a heavy focus on provider operations.

Philadelphia-based Temple University Health System's computer system was compromised in late August, impacting operations including email and patient scheduling, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

Before delving into an EHR customization project, hospitals and health systems should consider various factors in order to set up their organization for success.

Minneapolis-based Allina Health partnered with Excel Medical, a medical device integration and analytics company, and will join its innovation program geared toward enhancing Epic EHR workflows.

Australia's Queensland public hospitals experienced EHR downtime Sept. 10 due to a routine Cerner software patch, Brisbane Times reports.

Top U.S. tech companies were unimpressed by a plan White House officials unveiled Sept. 10 to direct $973.5 million toward government agencies' nondefense artificial intelligence research for the fiscal year ending September 2020, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Direct-to-consumer DNA tests, which make it easy for anyone to learn the identity of blood relatives who may have wanted to stay anonymous, are challenging sperm banks' longstanding assurances of identity protection, STAT reports.

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System and the IBM Data Science Elite team announced Sept. 10 a collaboration to develop an artificial intelligence model to detect sepsis mortality risk.

Tempus, a Chicago-based biotech startup building a massive library of clinical and molecular data and an accompanying machine learning-powered analytics platform, has recently poached leaders from leading healthcare institutions, STAT reports.

Dr. David Jacofsky is founder and CEO The CORE Institute and HOPCo, a Phoenix-based orthopedic practice and practice management organization.

EHR vendors Epic and Cerner have each recently unveiled initiatives that aim to propel the use of de-identified patient data for medical research.

Grand Rapids-based Metro Health — University of Michigan Health implemented a clinical communication application for clinicians to help reduce stroke time to treatment from 53 minutes to 29 minutes.