A federal grand jury has indicted two individuals who were reportedly employed by U.S. cybersecurity firms in connection with ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations. Ryan Clifford Goldberg and Kevin Tyler Martin were charged in U.S. District Court for the Southern…

Epic Systems has filed its formal response to Particle Health’s antitrust lawsuit, denying all allegations that it engaged in anticompetitive conduct or defamation against the health data exchange startup. New York City-based Particle Health sued the Verona, Wis.-based EHR giant…

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System will begin using Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot, an AI tool designed to help clinicians complete documentation and reduce administrative work. The technology, which combines natural language processing and generative AI, will integrate directly into…

Boston-based athenahealth introduced an AI-native clinical encounter that uses ambient and generative artificial intelligence to streamline documentation, decision-making and orders during the patient visit. The experience includes athenaAmbient, an ambient digital scribe that drafts diagnoses, prescriptions and clinical notes from…

New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is collaborating with oncology-focused startup Triomics to implement an AI-powered platform that supports clinical trial matching and screening across its research portfolio. The technology, developed by Triomics, automatically analyzes patient records to…

BJC Health is the new name of the combined BJC HealthCare and Saint Luke’s Health System. St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare and Kansas City, Mo.-based Saint Luke’s merged in 2024, creating a 24-hospital, $10.7 billion organization known as BJC Health System.…

Virtual nursing is growing beyond the four walls of the hospital. For instance, Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, one of the leading providers of inpatient virtual nursing, is expanding the care model to its ambulatory practices. Virtual nurses now handle after-hours calls…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has developed an AI algorithm that can detect obstructive sleep apnea using electrocardiogram results. The study, published Nov. 4 in JACC: Advances, analyzed 12-lead ECG test data from 11,299 patients who had also undergone sleep evaluations.…

Health system leaders agree on one thing: technology won’t fix healthcare’s biggest problems on its own. Despite growing expectations that technology can solve the industry’s biggest problems, health IT leaders say the most persistent myth is that innovation alone can…

St. Louis-based Mercy is partnering with Microsoft to develop what the organizations describe as the first commercially available ambient AI solution for nurses, aimed at reducing administrative burdens and improving patient care. The technology, part of Microsoft Dragon Copilot, captures…