The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Information Technology is stumbling with modernization efforts due to high CIO turnover, Federal Times reports.

The digital revolution in healthcare is at a turning point — hospitals need their systems to talk to each other to make new and existing technologies more meaningful to patient care and to better manage the health of their patient…

The University of South Carolina in Columbia opened its new Innovation Think Tank Lab as part of its collaboration with Siemens Healthineers to address health IT issues.

New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine researchers developed an artificial intelligence-powered, deep neural network for embryo image analysis that may predict success rates of in vitro fertilization treatments, according to a study published in NPJ Digital Medicine.

Advantia Health, a female-focused health technology company that provides specialized care for women, purchased video chat platform Pacify, which serves new and expectant mothers.

Innovaccer, a healthcare data startup, added an artificial intelligence-powered tool to its patient data platform that addresses individuals' needs based on social determinants of health.

Pullman (Wash.) Regional Hospital will invest $10 million in a new Epic EHR system, Moscow-Pullman Daily News reports.

Worcester-based University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Group awarded four of its physicians $200,000 for their telemedicine initiative aimed at increasing evaluations of individuals suspected of opioid overdose, Worcester Business Journal reports.

Twelve health information technology notes:

There will be an emergence of a "blockchain ecosystem with healthcare-focused use cases" in the next five to 10 years, according to research from Frost & Sullivan.