As software prices continue to rise, hospital and health system IT leaders are increasingly becoming financial stewards for their organizations. 

Digital health company Virgin Pulse completed its $3 billion merger with benefits and analytics platform HealthComp.

EHRs have vast capabilities, and most health systems aren't optimizing their investment simply because they haven't realized the full potential of the technology.

Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg was among the investors that helped launch Cercle, a healthcare artificial intelligence startup focusing on women's fertility health, CNBC reported Nov. 8.

Sayre, Pa.-based Guthrie Clinic was named College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Innovator of the Year for its installation of Artisight's artificial intelligence-powered remote nursing platform.

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.