Walgreens said it plans to roll out virtual care with healthcare providers for common health needs beginning in October. 

Cleveland Clinic is partnering with TikTok to give the social media platform users' access to accurate mental health information.

Three new IT chiefs have been named to the board of trustees for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, which is also getting new officers for 2024 and 2025.

Hospitals and health systems have reported outsourcing IT jobs in a move to reduce operating costs and allow their former employees to retain jobs, but will this be a new norm for healthcare organizations?

San Diego-based Alvarado Hospital Medical Center will remain on Epic as it is sold to UC San Diego Health for $200 million, a UC San Diego spokesperson told Becker's.

Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center, based in Jasper, Ind., is offering a MyChart "fast pass" which allows patients to request to be placed on a digital wait list for an earlier appointment time. 

So far, in 2023, Becker's has reported on hospitals in Texas, Vermont, Ohio, Nebraska and Illinois switching to Meditech.

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health announced the launch of a new innovation center that will be located in San Francisco. 

From artificial intelligence writing patient portal messages for physicians to "hospital rooms of the future" equipped with voice assistants and video-based care, there are a lot of cool things in healthcare nowadays. But which are actually making a difference in the lives of patients and healthcare workers?

Optimize Health, a remote patient monitoring company, raised $18 million in series B financing.

Bhavik Patel, MD, chief AI officer of Mayo Clinic Arizona, said as AI in healthcare continues to grow, organizations should consider creating a leadership position dedicated to it, Fox News reported Oct. 10. 

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health's primary care physicians have saved approximately 40 minutes on documentation by using ambient technology.

UC Davis Health, based in Sacramento, Calif., as well as the University of California health systems, will be leading a new generative artificial intelligence collaborative. 

A lawsuit has been filed against Costco that alleges the warehouse club company shared customers' protected health information with Facebook parent company Meta, The Seattle Times reported Oct. 9. 

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has launched a 24/7 virtual care app that uses artificial intelligence to evaluate patients.

Microsoft unveiled new healthcare data and artificial intelligence tools Oct. 10 that are being adopted by health systems including Advocate Health, Northwestern Medicine and Duke Health.

Hippocratic AI, a generative artificial intelligence startup focused on healthcare, has named multiple health system C-suite leaders to its inaugural physician advisory council.

Brookhaven, Miss.-based King's Daughter Medical Center has decommissioned its legacy EHR, Meditech Magic, and migrated more than 70,000 patient records to an independent clinical data repository. 

Walmart is expanding its virtual primary care options for its employees nationwide through a partnership with Included Health.

As hospitals and health systems begin moving their EHRs and workloads to the cloud, organizations are beginning to see improvements in efficiencies, up-front infrastructure costs and cybersecurity.