Hospitals that merge are particularly vulnerable to data breaches in the period during and right after the acquisitions, according to research at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Biobeat, a wearable remote patient monitoring company, completed its integration with Epic, as it looks to expand into the U.S. healthcare market.

Amid challenges like staff shortages, physician burnout and endless administrative tasks, hospitals and health systems still are striving to scale their services and impact. To make improvements that are sustainable and efficient, many are revisiting their provider credentialing processes.

Apple continues to aggressively hire for healthcare jobs focused on enhancing the health features of its devices. 

Epic Systems received 88.7 out of 100 on overall performance in a report on customer perceptions from KLAS Research, while Cerner received a 67.6.

Hospitals' "digital front door" strategy continues into post-care, with patient portals being used more and more by providers and patients alike.

AVA, standing for AI virtual assistant, is UNC Health's internal version of ChatGPT that is hosted within the health system's own secure environment.

Cleveland Clinic and its IBM-managed quantum computer are taking on the task of exploring how quantum computing can optimize healthcare's complex systems and drug discovery and seeing if it can provide more accuracy than AI models. 

Healthcare has been slow to adopt synthetic data because it's expensive and hard to mimic actual patient information, The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 2.

Executives from health systems such as Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente are joining forces with Big Tech leaders to develop a "code of conduct" for the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Thirty-nine percent of health IT leaders identified budget constraints as the biggest challenge to achieving their health IT goals, according to a new survey of 33 hospital executives from KLAS Research.

The MOVEit data breach continues to take more victims across a variety of industries, including hospitals and health systems across the U.S. as well as CMS. 

Evansville, Ind.-based Deaconess Health Care has a new command center that uses artificial intelligence to provide staff with data on the availability for each area of the hospital, 14 News reported Aug. 1.  

Jacksonville (Ill.) Memorial Hospital is receiving a $1 million grant to install an EHR system, My Journal Courier reported Aug. 2. 

Columbus-based OhioHealth is partnering with Zipline to deliver prescriptions to patients' homes via drone.

UNC Health has been piloting Epic's artificial intelligence tool that drafts clinician responses to patients' questions and comments for over a month, and the health system's team traveled to Epic's headquarters to discuss strategies for future AI innovations within EHRs.

Rush University System for Health has launched a remote patient monitoring program for Medicare and Medicaid patients in the Chicago area.

The American Hospital Association highlighted six healthcare startups it says could optimize providers' time and improve patient outcomes in an Aug. 1 article.

CMS finalized changes to the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program for hospitals demonstrating meaningful use of certified EHRs in the 2024 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule.

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger partnered with Bodyport, a virtual care company monitoring heart health, to develop a new care program for heart failure.