Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health opened an 11,000-square-foot digital innovation center this month in San Francisco to develop new healthcare artificial intelligence and remote patient monitoring platforms, the San Francisco Chronicle reported March 22.

Epic makes sure to have the latest technology, such as generative artificial intelligence, available from the outset of its EHR implementations, a company leader told Becker's.

The American Hospital Association sent a letter to the HHS urging them to clarify whether hospitals and health systems should be providing breach notification to patients if protected health information is compromised due to the Feb. 21 cyberattack on Change…

As healthcare organizations look to implement more AI tools, the question of whether to build or buy continues to be an ongoing conversation.

As providers nationwide continue to face financial disruptions stemming from the Change Healthcare cyberattack in February, a Florida physician has shared how UnitedHealth Group's CEO, Andrew Witty, personally stepped in to address cash flow challenges.

Racial and ethnic minorities experienced lower response rates from attending physicians for patient portal messages, but higher response rates from registered nurses, indicating potential disparities in triage prioritization, a March 18 study published in JAMA Network Open found. 

A San Jose, Calif.-based Equinix data center used by Epic experienced a "power issue" that led to a brief outage March 20.

Change Healthcare said it has reinstated Amazon cloud services for two of its platforms a month into a cyberattack against the company.

CMS is aiming to solve one of healthcare's most perplexing — and time-consuming — issues: the dreaded prior authorization.

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care researchers found that using AI in the EHR to assist clinicians with answering patient messages has been able to reduce clerical burden and lower feelings of burnout.