With some EHR installation costs climbing north of $500 million, a botched installation can seriously affect a health system's bottom line.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente's hospital at home program uses three different digital health platforms to manage patient care, document results and communicate with patients.

In 2023, health systems in Tennessee, California and Florida reported breaches affecting more than 1 million patients. 

New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital reached a settlement, which calls for the health system to pay $300,000 for using advertising tools that shared personal information with technology companies. 

Health IT company CareView Communications is expanding its partnership with an unnamed health system in North Texas.

More than 1 million patients at Corewell Health may have had their information exposed as the health system's population health management vendor, HealthEC, experienced a data breach, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Dec. 26.

Hospitals and health systems continue to invest in EHR platforms as the technology becomes more sophisticated for more coordinated care.

Hackers are emailing patients of Oklahoma City, Okla.-based Integris Health and demanding $50 in Bitcoin, The Oklahoman reported Dec. 26.

In 2023, the Department of Veterans Affairs faced fierce criticism from clinicians, lawmakers and patients over its rollout of the Oracle Health EHR system. Despite the blowback, the agency is continuing to move forward with the system.

Since Nov. 10, Becker's has reported on health systems in Minnesota, Missouri, Idaho, Florida and Pittsburgh, launching new virtual care platforms.