Throughout the pandemic, Americans have cycled through three main emotions in response to COVID-19: refusal, anger and acceptance. 

Ransomware attacks skyrocketed amid the pandemic when hospitals increased their use of remote work and moved more hospital data online, according to a July 21 report by cybersecurity consulting firm CynergisTek.

A top FBI official told Congress that lawmakers should not make ransomware payments illegal as it tracks 100 active ransomware groups.

Hackers aren't always hidden away by international borders and anonymous identities. Sometimes employees' wrongdoing can transpire under a hospital's roof. 

UMass Memorial Health is teaming up with Halo Health to launch the health system's clinical communication initiative.

Below are seven hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking chief information security officers in the last month.

At an average of $9.23 million per incident, healthcare leads as the top industry for the most expensive data breach costs, according to IBM. 

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

JP Onnela, PhD, an associate professor of biostatistics at the Boston-based Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, stopped using Apple Watches in his research after spotting several inconsistencies in the data collected by the device, according to a July 27 report by The Verge.

The parent company of Catalyst Health Network, a 1,000-physician network based in Plano, Texas, acquired digital health company MediBookr, according to a July 27 news release.

A former employee of Tampa General urgent care has been accused of taking photos of some patients' driver's licenses and credit card information, according to a July 27 WTSP report. 

From their thoughts on how to craft an effective digital health strategy to hospital at home initiatives to the most overused terms in the health IT field, here are six quotes about the role of innovation in healthcare that hospital and health system executives shared with Becker's Hospital Review in July:

Eighty-one percent of U.S. adults support increased access to health information for patients and providers, according to survey results released July 27 by Pew Research.

UC San Diego Health began notifying patients July 27 of an employee email security event that may have exposed their protected health information. 

Marketing budgets decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, but marketing executives are not seeing the recovery they expected, according to a July 14 report from Gartner.

Roger Baker, a former assistant secretary of Veterans Affairs for Information and Technology, shared six reasons why he thinks the VA's $16 billion Cerner EHR rollout is rocky, according to a July 26 article published by Federal Computer Week.

New Brunswick, N.J.-based Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences appointed Andrew Evens, DO, as its clinical and health affairs division's first associate vice chancellor for clinical innovation and data analytics, the university announced July 27. 

The Digital Health Measurement Collaborative Community, a coalition of providers and health IT companies including Johns Hopkins Medicine, Teladoc Health and Pfizer, on July 27 unveiled its first two digital health measurement projects. 

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic teamed up with artificial intelligence firm Nference to analyze 1.1 million clinical notes and find the connection between preexisting conditions and the severity of COVID-19 symptoms, according to a July 27 report published in NPJ Digital Medicine.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente developed the "COVID Hotspotting Score" to use data from routine clinical care to predict the onset of a COVID-19 surge up to six weeks in advance, according to a July 26 study published in BMJ Open.