Artem Stryzhak, a 36-year-old Ukrainian national who attacked U.S. hospitals and businesses as an affiliate of the Hive and Nefilim ransomware groups, was sentenced Oct. 27 to 70 months in federal prison. Mr. Stryzhak, formerly of Barcelona, Spain, was one…

Federal health IT rules and new state laws are set to bring changes to EHR certification, clinical AI oversight, electronic prescribing, prior authorization and hospital data exchange in 2027. Among the developments are new payer prior authorization API requirements, changes…

Cleveland-based University Hospitals said the vast majority of appointments and procedures are proceeding as scheduled despite an ongoing cybersecurity incident that has left its MyChart patient portal unavailable. “Patients are seeing virtually no impact on the level of care they…

Anthropic has acquired Mithril Medicine, a one-person startup developing treatments for two rare forms of muscular dystrophy. The AI company also released early results from Claude-assisted drug development work with six outside organizations, it said Oct. 27. The partners are…

University of California San Diego’s Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity has received an award of up to $29.9 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. The money will fund tools that map the networked technology hospitals depend on to…

As hospitals and health systems further embed AI into healthcare delivery, they are increasingly appointing chief AI officers or equivalent senior executives with dedicated responsibility for AI governance, implementation and oversight. The growing presence of these roles reflects the industry’s…

If your CIO can’t draw your data architecture on a napkin, you don’t have one. Here’s a useful exercise for Chief Data Analytics Officers (CDAO), at your next one-on-one with your Chief Data Information Officer (CDIO), hand them a blank…

Boston-based Mass General Brigham is restructuring its Home Hospital program beginning in November, shifting its focus toward higher-acuity patients at its two academic medical centers as the health system looks to address emergency department overcrowding and improve the program’s long-term…

Albuquerque-based UNM Health System said its clinics will resume regularly scheduled appointments and procedures Oct. 27 after a cybersecurity incident forced it to divert ambulances and cancel all clinic appointments Oct. 26. In a 10:27 p.m. update Oct. 26, the…

EHRs remain among the largest investments healthcare organizations will ever make — and several multimillion- and multibillion-dollar projects are still in progress in 2026, even as others crossed the finish line this fall. Here are the most expensive EHR implementations…