Everybody needs to vent sometimes, even those running the technology strategy at a hospital or health system. Below, 19 healthcare executives share the health IT terms and buzz words they find overused, annoying or cringeworthy.

Nine recent partnerships between healthcare organizations and big tech companies including Amazon, Google and Microsoft. 

Telehealth visits skyrocketed during the pandemic. Telehealth has enormous advantages, but to improve care at scale, several challenges must be addressed. 

MacroHealth, a healthcare pricing and payment analytics platform, welcomed former Cerner COO Mike Nill to its board of directors, the company said July 27. 

The decision to pay a ransom to hackers falls on the organization that has become victim of an attack, but as ransomware attacks rise so have concerns and calls for a ban on payments to try to prevent them from occurring. 

Verona, Wis.-based EHR giant Epic gives financial incentives to hospitals and health systems that use its artificial intelligence algorithms, which can provide false predictions, according to a July 26 STAT News investigation. 

Former Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush and Golden State Warriors NBA player Klay Thompson recently joined a $5 million investing round for healthcare price transparency startup Turquoise Health. 

The Inspire CIO of the Year Orbie Awards recently named SCL Health CIO Craig Richardville the recipient of its healthcare CIO award, according to a July 26 news release. 

Below is a list of investments that health systems made in digital health startups and internal innovation efforts in the last 30 days.

Adventist Health inked a digital patient experience partnership with GetWellNetwork, the Roseville, Calif.-based health system said July 26.

While it is true that most of the country's current COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are among unvaccinated people, it is becoming increasingly common for unvaccinated Americans to be demonized by some media outlets and public officials.

Penn Medicine is launching a new health informatics center this fall that will focus on health data projects across the Philadelphia-based health system's innovation and information services departments, the health system said July 26. 

Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth and Florida's Flagler County school district signed an exclusive agreement July 20 that gives the health system blanket access to marketing in the district's schools, according to a July 1 FlaglerLive report.

UnityPoint Health-Des Moines (Iowa) and Qventus are partnering to use artificial intelligence to improve patient flow, the discharge process and triaging ancillary services. 

While more healthcare providers turned to chatbots for patient triaging during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers say the technologies powering these virtual assistants still need advancing before coming close to imitating a physician's brain, The Washington Post reported. 

Fort Myers-based Florida Heart Associates is operating at about 50 percent of its capacity after a May ransomware attack on its computer and IT systems, according to a July 25 Fox 4 News report. 

More than 2,000 UnitedHealthcare patients are being notified that their data has been potentially exposed after several phishing attacks launched on a broker's email addresses.

Ventura, Calif.-based Community Memorial Health System's patients may have been affected by a cyberattack launched against one of its vendors earlier this year.

Patients may have gained access to their EHR notes, but that doesn't mean they have an easy time understanding what those notes mean, according to a study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. 

Now that the U.S. economy has largely "opened up" and Americans' day-to-day lives are getting closer to normal, it can be tricky for hospitals to communicate their masking policies and safety protocols to visitors.