St. Louis-based Ascension said hackers stole files that likely contained patient data during the recent cyberattack on the health system.

In the past five years, venture capital investments in artificial intelligence for healthcare have skyrocketed, expanding at twice the pace of the overall tech industry, according to a June 11 report from Silicon Valley Bank.

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine reduced patient portal messages to physicians by having medical assistants triage the communications.

While at-home monitoring is less common for kids, one children's hospital now has 11 remote management programs for its pediatric patients.

Nearly half of patients have yet to schedule a medical visit online, according to a survey by healthcare communications firm Jarrard Inc.

Boulder (Colo.) Community Health, a hospital composed of 2,400 employees, was once too small to work with EHR vendor Epic, hospital CEO and President Robert Vissers, MD, told the Denver Business Journal in a June 11 article. 

Cleveland-based University Hospitals added a new artificial intelligence platform to 13 of its hospitals and dozens of outpatient locations.

St. Louis-based Ascension has restored EHR access in 11 states in the wake of a recent cyberattack. 

Two senators accused UnitedHealthcare of violating HIPAA because the company has not sent out breach notifications for the February cyberattack on Change Healthcare, one of its subsidiaries. 

Federal authorities are investigating a 2023 data breach at a medical transcription company that may have compromised the personal information of up to 1.2 million patients at Chicago-based Cook County Health, NPR affiliate WBEZ reported June 10.