When Americans need to find care, the first place they usually go is Google. With hospitals' ratings and reviews often affecting healthcare consumers' decision about where to seek care, what options are available when a patient writes a misleading or dishonest review?

Blessing Health System expanded its Allscripts EHR to three facilities, the Quincy, Ill.-based health system announced May 13. 

Twelve people are responsible for 65 percent of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media, according to a recent study conducted by the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

St. Louis-based Washington University School of Medicine is partnering with the National Institutes of Health's All of Us research program to build a large, diverse biomedical data resource.

Media coverage of data breaches often explain how an organization was attacked and report how many people's data was exposed. Cybersecurity researcher Ravi Sen, PhD, shares where the stolen data ends up in a May 13 op-ed published by The Conversation.

Below are eight health IT executive moves that occurred in the last few weeks:

Hackers are viewed as malicious actors whose data breaches have the potential to seriously harm patients and halt hospital operations. But what if they were on our side?

Colonial Pipeline Co. paid criminal gang DarkSide $5 million May 13 to put an end to the cybercriminals' ransomware attack across its computer systems, CNBC reports. 

President Joe Biden signed an executive order to modernize the nation's cybersecurity infrastructure and develop a concrete cyber incident response plan.

The CIO of a Maryland hospital helped save a 2-year-old from drowning after the child was thrown from a vehicle into the Assawoman Bay near Ocean City, according to a May 12 Daily American report. 

Ireland's national health service took its computer systems offline May 14 after experiencing a "significant" ransomware attack across its network, CNBC reports. 

The FDA issued a warning May 13 that certain cell phones and smart watches with high-field strength magnets may cause implanted medical devices to shut off when in close proximity. 

California was the worst overall state for cybercrime in 2020, losing more than $600 million in the year, according to a recent ranking by cybersecurity vendor Rublon.

In the last 30 years, Big Tech — Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Apple — have collectively made over 800 acquisitions. Even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, they have continued to write billion-dollar checks. Here are the four biggest acquisitions that assist these tech giants in their healthcare initiatives, according to a CB Insights report.

CIOs are taking on a wider range of responsibilities since the start of the pandemic, according to a May 12 article by The Wall Street Journal.

Based on Big Tech's recent acquisitions and investments in digital health, tech market intelligence platform CB Insights predicts where Big Tech could go next in a recent report.

The pandemic imposed a significant delay on surgical innovation, one that will require a good deal of time and funding to overcome, according to Dr. Toby Gordon a healthcare policy and innovation expert and professor at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University.

ONC is spearheading a new effort to strengthen current interoperability initiatives and secure long-term strategies, Deputy National Coordinator Steve Posnack wrote in a May 13 blog post.

The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack has prompted a response from the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Now, the FBI and CISA are sharing tips to prevent other organizations from experiencing similar disruption.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University in Tempe selected remote patient monitoring platform Hoy Health as one of the winners of their joint MedTech Accelerator program, the organizations said in a May 13 news release.