General Electric Healthcare has launched its first 5G innovation lab.

Venture capital firm Amgen Ventures joined a $25 million series A fundraising effort for startup Kernal Biologics. 

CVS has appointed a new C-suite executive who will oversee the CIO and other tech leaders at the company, The Wall Street Journal reported July 8.

With inflation at a more than 40-year high, CIOs are rethinking their spending to cope with the rising costs of IT supplies, services and talent. 

  Well Health has selected Iain Paterson as its chief information security officer, the Santa Barbara, Calif.-based digital health company said July 8.

Spending on the cloud is expected to eclipse traditional IT infrastructure expenditures later this year, according to a recent report from market intelligence firm International Data Corporation.

When Jeff Gautney took over as vice president and CIO of Rush University Medical Center last August, he focused on "rebuilding the basement, the kitchen and the bathrooms — those foundational things that enable you to have that really cool living room," he told Becker's.

Oracle Cerner was the global leader in EHR market share in 2021, serving about 2,389 hospitals worldwide, according to a July 7 report from KLAS Research.

From pressure to take a stance on social issues to higher expectations from the C-suite, challenges abound for health system marketing departments. Here, three health system marketing leaders share the most challenging issues they are facing. 

OhioHealth revealed plans to lay off 567 IT workers as it shifts the work to Accenture, a professional services company, in a strategic move to focus more on improving patient care and services, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

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. Here are 14 hospitals and health systems that have posted job listings seeking EHR and IT expertise in the last month.

The healthcare data and analytics company formerly known as IBM Watson has rebranded to Merative, reflecting its acquisition by Francisco Partners. 

A significant difference in the ability of pulse oximetry to detect low oxygen concentrations for white and Black patients has been found within inpatient departments in Veterans Health Administration hospitals, according to a study published July 6 in the British Medical Journal.

An agency watchdog cleared a Department of Veteran Affairs' former IT leader of three misconduct allegations brought by the department's former chief information security officer, FedScoop reported July 5. 

Babylon, a digital health firm based in London, said July 6 that it's implementing revenue and cost efficiencies to speed up its path to profitability.

VCU Health disclosed they had recently learned that beginning as early as Jan. 4, 2006, information about transplant donors had accidentally been included in files for their transplant recipients and vice versa.

Heartland Healthcare Services, a pharmacy company owned by HCR-ManorCare and CVS Health, notified patients that an April data breach has compromised the protected health information of some customers. 

Corona del Mar, Calif.-based Tebra has raised $72 million to reach a valuation of $1 billion.

Marketers spend most of their digital advertising dollars on paid channels, according to a July 6 KO Marketing article.

Taylor Healthcare has centralized its iMedConsent platform to the Department of Veteran Affairs' enterprise cloud system.