Ascension Technologies, the IT subsidiary of St. Louis-based Ascension, plans to outsource about 330 tech jobs by Nov. 19 following a round of IT layoffs earlier this year, according to a recent notice filed with the state. 

Ransomware attacks can be fatal for patients, according to a September report by the Ponemon Institute.

Digital nurse staffing platform IntelyCare welcomed Aashima Gupta, a healthcare executive at Google Cloud, and Janelle Sallenave, a former Uber executive, to its board of directors, the company said Sept. 21.

To succeed in a hybrid workforce, CIOs are turning to talent-facing executives to develop policies and procedures for an inclusive and engaging work environment, according to a Sept. 21 report by The Wall Street Journal.

To deter future cyber extortion attacks, the Treasury Department on Sept. 21 sanctioned a Russian-owned cryptocurrency exchange accused of  helping launder ransomware payments, The Wall Street Journal reported. 

Telemedicine, hospital-at-home programs and artificial intelligence will be key to improving healthcare access and affordability in the future, according to Gianrico Farrugia, MD, president and CEO of Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic.

The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology awarded $73 million in agreements for its health IT workforce development program.

In a recent press release, Accuity, a pioneer in physician-led inpatient medical record review services, announced the launch of its new corporate brand identity, redesigned logo, and website.

The definition of "electronic health information" will need to be standardized to ensure compliance with HHS' Cures Act Final Rule, according to a recent report by The American Health Information Management Association, the American Medical Informatics Association and the Electronic Health Record Association.

The FBI had the decryption key to unlock hundreds of hospitals and businesses' IT systems held hostage by REvil's ransomware attacks but chose not to since it planned to carry out an attack on the hacker group, according to a Sept. 21 report by The Washington Post.

HHS has awarded a total of $100,000 to six winners of its synthetic health data challenge on Sept. 21.

Digital health startups garner most of their funds from their founders, angel investors, friends and families, according to a Deloitte report.

Health IT startups have secured more than $1 billion in recent funding rounds, with cardiology as the top-funded medical area, according to a Deloitte report.

Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center is beginning to sort through thousands of pieces of mail after they were left in a basement for more than 10 months, according to a Sept. 20 report by CBS affiliate WBS 2.

HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT unveiled 13 new elements for its Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, which works toward achieving a single pathway to interoperability across health information networks. 

Salesforces launched Health Cloud 2.0 to help companies manage COVID-19 contact tracing, vaccines and exposure notifications, and enable patients to receive hybrid healthcare services.

Telehealth providers Doctor on Demand and Grand Rounds are teaming up with a group of large employers including Walmart, Target and Accenture, to create a digital health program that aims to reduce health disparities in Black Americans, the companies said Sept. 21. 

Prominent brands have been advertising on websites dedicated to COVID-19 misinformation throughout the pandemic — often unknowingly because of the opaque design of the digital advertising market, according to a report released Sept. 18 by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

Hospitals are striving to become more efficient and save money in ways that allow them to focus on patient outcomes. Intelligent automation allows hospitals to take mundane, repetitive tasks and give them to digital workers, freeing up critical hospital employees to focus on more complex and value-added tasks that improve patient care and satisfaction.

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