Three health systems have apparently been ensnared in a 2024 hack of EHR vendor Veradigm, formerly known as Allscripts, DataBreaches.net reported. In the December data breach, a cybercriminal used a credential obtained from a Veradigm customer to enter a Veradigm…

Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner didn’t get an MBA — and she said the EHR giant wouldn’t look the same if she had. “If I had gotten an MBA, they would likely have taught me how to get venture…

Sixty percent of hospital CIOs have been directed by their boards or finance committees to suspend certain IT projects amid the government shutdown, Black Book Research found. Until cash visibility improves, the IT chiefs have been ordered to halt enterprise…

Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health has formalized a new era of innovation leadership, naming James Hotaling, MD, as its inaugural chief innovation officer.  Dr. Hotaling, who stepped into the role Sept. 1, said the timing reflects a convergence…

Turns out conversations in healthcare already had the answers Disruption in healthcare too often starts as an outside job. Health systems tend to attract non-physician outsiders eager to punch down and pontificate about how things should work with less regard…

Hospitals are beginning to rethink how new technology reaches the bedside. Instead of introducing tools and workflows from the top down, many health systems are starting earlier in the process — asking nurses to help design the systems they’ll eventually…

Emergency departments nationwide face mounting pressure, from rising patient acuity to staffing shortages and operational inefficiencies. In a recent discussion hosted by Becker’s Healthcare and Mednition, leaders from Inspira Health, a four-hospital system in southern New Jersey, shared how they…

Sharp HealthCare has appointed Tommy Korn, MD, as its first chief spatial computing officer — a first-of-its-kind role in healthcare designed to integrate immersive technology into clinical care. When Dr. Korn waved hello during a recent video call, his real…

An outage at Microsoft’s cloud computing platform affected Epic’s MyChart patient portal, the Independent reported. DownDetector, a crowdsourced interruption-reporting site, showed a big increase in errors Oct. 29 for Microsoft Azure, with MyChart one of the impacted services, according to…

Hospitals are swimming in metrics — quality scores, throughput data, readmission rates, to name a few — but for those responsible for steering a facility’s digital transformation, one question looms above the rest: How to know when technology is actually…