The HHS is looking to bring back a HIPAA compliance audit program in a bid to enhance cybersecurity within the healthcare sector, Gov Info Security reported Feb. 13. 

Nearly 2.4 million patients of Oklahoma City-based Integris Health were caught up in a data breach where the alleged hackers sent extortion emails directly to some of them.

The CIO and innovation chief of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare will soon report directly to the CEO, in realignment meant to emphasize the 186-hospital system's tech focus.

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health is nearly three-fourths of the way through an $800 million Epic rollout that is bringing the EHR to 101 hospitals.

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health has focused digital technology investment in areas with clear opportunities to add capacity and support growth.

Ninety-eight percent of laid-off staff from Oracle Health, who were conducting health information technology operations for Springfield, Mo.-based CoxHealth, have accepted new job offers with the health system. 

Seventy-one percent of healthcare executives say that implementing new technology has not lowered overall hospital expenses, a Feb. 9 survey from Ernst & Young found. 

Boston Children's Hospital's ChatGPT expert is teaching physicians and artificial intelligence how to understand one another better. And he is one of a "small handful of people on the planet" qualified to do so.

Two more health information networks have been added to a nationwide data exchange used by hospitals and health systems, HHS said Feb. 12.

Epic has embedded Abridge's generative AI for clinical documentation within its standard workflows.