Kettering (Ohio) Health is facing a lawsuit after a cybersecurity incident in May disrupted systems across the organization, WDTN reported June 16. Here are five things to know:

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare and the hybrid care company OnMed have opened a virtual care station at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn. The walk-in telehealth kiosk, sponsored by Hartford HealthCare, connects travelers and airport employees to licensed clinicians who…

Oracle has launched a mobile tool aimed at helping healthcare providers access and update patient records — even in areas without internet connectivity. The tool, Oracle Health Community Care, is a cloud-based mobile extension of the Oracle Health Foundation EHR.…

The University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Epic EHR system includes a field for “citizenship,” Mississippi Today reported June 16. An Epic spokesperson told the publication that the feature was not added by the company. “Each organization configures Epic’s software to…

Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Health investigated two remote workers hired to process lab requisitions after discovering they were operating outside the U.S. and may have misrepresented their identities. Here are five things to know:

More than 70% of healthcare organizations either have already adopted or plan to implement generative AI. Expanding the use of this technology however, requires organizations to pay special attention to patient safety. To learn more about the early application of…

As hospitals increasingly adopt AI to assist with documentation, a team at Duke University in Durham, N.C., is offering new tools to help ensure those technologies are safe and effective for patient care. In two newly published studies, Duke researchers…

About three years ago, Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara established its AI steering committee and governance group to guide ethics and combat bias in AI as they began incorporating artificial intelligence into the acute care setting. Sentara started a pilot examining how…

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care has tapped a virtual care company to provide pulmonary rehabilitation to COPD patients at home. Kivo Health provides AI-powered virtual pulmonary rehab and care. The treatment model aims to improve access and outcomes and…

Agentic AI is making its way into healthcare, and Minneapolis-based Allina Health is one of the early adopters of the technology. The 12-hospital system recently launched “Alli,” an AI agent that answers calls and handles tasks such as canceling an…