The home-based care M&A sector experienced a sluggish third quarter in 2023, marked by just 18 reported deals, according to a Nov. 7 report from investment bank Mertz Taggart. 

The sensitive data of 845,000 Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health patients was compromised in a ransomware attack on its online contact-management vendor Welltok, a Virgin Pulse company.  

Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health is working to create "digital twins" of patients to predict how they might respond to medical treatments, NJBIZ reported Nov. 13.

Software and IT companies Salesforce and Accenture are partnering to bring generative artificial intelligence tools to healthcare, life sciences and biopharma companies.

A group of clinicians, informaticists and AI specialists at Renton, Wash.-based Providence collaborated to create ProvARIA to organize inbox messages based on content and urgency.

Epic staffers field customer requests around the clock — sometimes handling queries for other health IT companies, according to founder and CEO Judy Faulkner.

As ransomware attacks cost the U.S. economy more than $77 billion, the network downtime and repair costs are leading to massive losses and even closures for healthcare companies in Vermont, Illinois and Massachusetts.

In the "Star Trek" television series, Dr. McCoy could identify numerous illnesses by scanning patients with his tricorder, and although healthcare hasn't reached that level of technology, they are making strides toward it, NJBiz reported Nov. 13.

Fifty-one percent of U.S. adults expressed optimism about the potential for new applications of artificial intelligence to drive significant advancements and breakthroughs in healthcare in the coming year, a recent survey from Medtronic and Morning Consult found. 

New York is planning to tighten regulation of hospital cybersecurity practices, according to draft rules reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.