Mahmee, a Los Angeles-based startup creating a digital platform to monitor maternal health and prevent avoidable complications and deaths, raised $3 million in seed funding from investors including Serena Williams and Mark Cuban.

A machine learning model developed at the University of California Davis was able to quickly and accurately predict acute kidney injury in burn patients, a common complication occurring in around 30 percent of severe burn cases.

The ongoing digitization of healthcare has ushered in a more connected and accessible health ecosystem, but also new risks of hacking, leaks and other data privacy violations, as well as increased regulatory and oversight processes.

With Facebook potentially facing a record-breaking $5 billion fine for violating users' data privacy, many organizations will undoubtedly be inspired to tighten up their own cybersecurity — and will reap even more benefits in the process.

A clinical-grade artificial intelligence model for pathology developed by researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City can detect cancer in tissue slides with near-perfect accuracy.

A malware attack caused a disruption in daily operations at South Bend (Ind.) Clinic last week, according to local NBC affiliate WNDU.

An unauthorized third party gained access to an employee's email account at a New York ACO that contained a spreadsheet of information for around 25,000 patients, according to The Post Star.

Tewksbury, Mass.-based Covenant Health reported $60.9 million in operating losses after implementing its new $83 million Epic EHR last year, Boston Business Journal reports. 

The U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved a blockchain bill last week that aims to promote the technology, according to a CNET report and cited by Yahoo Finance.

Bangor, Maine-based Penobscot Community Health Care mailed letters to an unknown number of patients about a data breach at one of the medical center's third-party vendors, according to Bangor Daily News.

Renee Fosberg, senior director and CIO at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass., has worked in the healthcare information systems industry for nearly 20 years.

Winston Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health migrated its Epic EHR system to a cloud platform from Virtustream, a Dell Technologies health IT business.

If society is to comfortably adapt to the ongoing artificial intelligence-spurred global transformation, it is imperative that the field of AI ethics continues to expand, according to a recent op-ed written in part by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, PhD, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, PhD.

The next generation of healthcare technology innovators should be prepared to fail early and often — and then to accept that failure, learn from it and move on — according to Todd Brinton, MD, an interventional cardiologist and founder of multiple medical technology startups, who offered his hard-earned advice to aspiring health IT innovators during an address at the 2019 graduation ceremony for Stanford University's Byers Center for Biodesign.

The University of Missouri System and MU Health Care, both based in Columbia, have partnered with Siemens Healthineers to establish the Alliance for Precision Health.

In a recent press release, Real Time Medical Systems (Real Time), a leading healthcare interventional analytics software company for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), post-acute care providers, hospitals, ACOs, and payers, has seen a 150% growth in sales since the beginning of 2018 as demand increases for an intuitive Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) solution amongst SNFs nationwide.

Becker's Hospital Review reported the following health IT executive moves recently affecting hospitals, companies and federal agencies:

In an effort to move forward on EHR interoperability efforts between the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense, members of the U.S. House of Representatives have proposed amendments to the agencies' joint management initiatives, Washington Technology reports.

Here are 12 recent health information technology vendor contracts and go-lives affecting healthcare organizations.

Amazon and other major blockchain developers have teamed up to build on an existing distributed web incubator that will allow blockchain entrepreneurs more tools to adopt the technology, according to Coindesk.