Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, when healthcare organizations created service line strategies, they typically only revisited them on occasion to make incremental adjustments.

Idaho Falls (Idaho) Community Hospital and its clinics are still working to bring its IT systems back online after a cyberattack forced the hospitals to take them offline May 30. 

Hospitals and health systems are increasing their investments in innovation efforts to spur news ideas and advance technology-enabled innovation.

Several health systems and tech companies were named founding members of CancerX, a digital health project that is part of the Biden administration's "cancer moonshot" initiative to cure the disease.

Last Fall, CMS opened a proverbial Pandora’s Box by publishing a Request for Information (RFI) about a possible National Directory of Healthcare Providers & Services.

Hybrid primary care company Carbon Health has debuted hands-free charting in its proprietary EHR, using GPT-4 artificial intelligence technology to craft patient visit summaries.

Many health systems are dipping their toes into venture capital, and Northwell Health is no exception. The New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based health system's venture arm, Northwell Holdings, has been making serious moves and maintains a diverse portfolio of healthcare companies.

Panorama City, Calif.-based Mission Community Hospital was infected by ransomware after hacker group RansomHouse exploited vulnerabilities in its Paragon and Cisco systems, DataBreaches.net reported June 4.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms will be the technology that has the biggest impact on healthcare, according to ChatGPT. 

Although ChatGPT said it is hard to pinpoint one single entity as the biggest healthcare disruptor, it labeled Amazon as the most notable, which differs from the opinions of health system and hospital CIOs, who told Becker's Optum and CVS would be the ones to watch in 2023. 

Former Epic employees are barred from working for organizations with ties to the EHR vendor for a year or two after leaving the company, Isthmus reported 

Hospitals and health systems have long been a favorite target of philanthropists.

LeanTaaS, a provider of software and artificial intelligence-powered tools to healthcare organizations, launched iQueue Autopilot, a generative AI tool designed to help hospital leaders with decision-making. 

Because so much patient information is digital nowadays, healthcare data privacy is just an "illusion" in the U.S., a Yale School of Medicine professor wrote June 1 in BMJ.

Cyberattacks can be enormously disruptive to hospital infrastructure and services.

An employee from MUSC Health Lancaster (S.C.) Medical Center inappropriately accessed electronic health records of about 1,800 patients between Oct. 6, 2022, and April 11, 2023.

The HHS has a big decision to make in selecting a new vendor for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, a project created by the 21st Century Cures Act designed to secure the sharing of data, Politico reported June 1.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is one the most notable health systems in the country and has a large investment arm to match.

Some former Epic employees say the EHR vendor's noncompete agreements have held them back from advancing their careers and stifled innovation in the Madison, Wis., area, Isthmus reported June 1.

With a net worth of $7.4 billion, Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner ranked third on Forbes' June 1 list of the richest American self-made women.