Today's Top 20 Health IT Articles
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Health IT funding in Q1: Generative AI, prior authorization 'emerging'
Health IT companies landed $1.3 billion in venture capital funding in the first quarter of 2023, up from the low point of late 2022 but still far off from the booming pandemic years, a new Pitchbook report found. -
Consumers want unified digital platforms to manage their healthcare experiences
Fifty-eight percent of consumers say that having a unified digital platform will increase their ability to effectively manage their treatments and benefits, PYMNTS reported May 31. -
4 healthcare execs that left Amazon
Several healthcare executives and leaders at Amazon have stepped down, left the company or taken a break from their positions in the last year. -
Conversational AI company used by hospitals raises $20M
Hyro, a conversational artificial intelligence company used by Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, Cincinnati-based Mercy Health and Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health, raised $20 million in series B financing. -
AWS picks biotech startup for AI accelerator program
Ordaos, a drug design company, was selected for the AWS Generative AI Accelerator. -
Walmart ups pay of 7,000 pharmacists, opticians
Walmart is boosting the wages of more than 7,000 pharmacists and opticians as it continues its push into retail healthcare. -
How Cedars-Sinai plans to 'democratize' artificial intelligence
Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai's new center, dubbed the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education, will focus on "democratizing" artificial intelligence so all clinicians and biomedical researchers will be able to use it regardless of training or expertise, Jason Moore, PhD, director of the center, told Becker's. -
Wellstar Health System to open $100M innovation center in Atlanta
Fresh off unveiling its $100 million venture capital fund, Wellstar Health System said it plans to open a new innovation center in downtown Atlanta, Atlanta Business Chronicle reported. -
10 biggest remote patient monitoring deals of '22, '23
While funding for remote patient monitoring companies has been up and down, the market is expected to grow exponentially by 2030 as clinicians and patients turn to wearables, Pitchbook reported. -
Epic vs. Cerner: EHR market share
EHR vendor Epic Systems continues to be the leader in the EHR hospital market share, with 83 hospitals joining its network in 2022, compared to Oracle Cerner, which only added 22. -
Where CVS, Walmart, Kaiser, Target rank in market share for retail clinics
Retail clinics have exploded in popularity in the past five years, as health systems and pharmacy giants like CVS Health continue to open them, a new report from Definitive Healthcare found. -
How UCLA Health, Cedars-Sinai are integrating more AI into clinical workflows
UCLA Health, Cedars-Sinai and more are accelerating their adoption of artificial intelligence to help them interpret data, build predictive models, streamline tasks and procedures, and to enhance communication with patients. -
Wisconsin hospital notifies patients of unauthorized access to PHI
Lancaster, Wis.-based Grant Regional Health Center is notifying 4,135 patients that some of their protected health information may have been compromised when an unauthorized party accessed one of its employee email accounts. -
Ascension, CVS Health Ventures back kidney care company in $166M round
Ascension Ventures, part of St. Louis-based Ascension, and CVS Health Ventures participated in a $166 million funding round May 31 for Strive Health, a tech-enabled kidney care provider that focuses on value-based care. -
Cleveland Clinic patients caught up in medical billing data breach
A breach at medical billing company MedInform has compromised the data of Cleveland Clinic patients. -
CVS-owned Oak Street to enter 4 new states
Oak Street Health, a primary care network acquired by CVS Health in May, will expand into Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and Virginia by the end of the year. -
Boston hospitals, physicians progressing toward ChatGPT's 'holy grail'
Hospitals, physicians and medical educators in Boston are all making use of ChatGPT and its generative artificial intelligence capabilities, the Boston Globe reported. -
Intermountain, University Hospitals back $20M clinician workforce data company
The venture capital arms of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare and Cleveland-based University Hospitals joined in a $20 million series B financing round for clinical workforce intelligence company Axuall. -
EHR vendors: The big winners from the past 5 years
From 2017 to 2022, Epic was by far the most successful EHR vendor and the only one to gain hospital beds, according to KLAS Research. -
Idaho hospitals hit by cyberattack, closed clinic
Two Idaho Falls, Idaho-based hospitals and partnering clinics reported a cyberattack on computer systems May 30.
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