The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' most expensive task is modernizing IT systems, VA Secretary David Shulkin, MD, said during a White House press briefing May 31.

A significant number of consumers learned about ransomware after a worldwide attack hit more than 200,000 computers in more than 150 countries in May, according to a Carbon Black report.

A significant proportion of companies are not effectively securing their public cloud infrastructure, according to a May 2017 report out of the cloud security startup RedLock.

The ONC announced the winners of the third and final phase of the Move Health Data Forward Challenge — Foxhall Wythe and Live and Leave Well.

Here are the top five most-read health IT stories from May, beginning with the most popular.

The ONC must refocus its role as a coordinator — rather than a regulator — of health IT, the coalition Health IT Now wrote in a May 31 letter to HHS Secretary Tom Price, MD.

Here are 10 recent news updates on health IT companies.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, R, this weekend signed Senate Bill 1107, expanding patients' access to video telemedicine services throughout the state, according to the Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.

Only 18 percent of electronic inpatient progress notes are original entries by clinicians, according to a research letter in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Children's Mercy Kansas City (Mo.) on May 19 notified 5,511 patients of an unauthorized disclosure of protected health information.