The Burning Glass Institute ranked U.S. metro areas on their cutting-edge tech talent, The Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 21.

David Sylvan, University Hospitals' new chief strategy and innovation officer, said health systems cannot think about innovation in a vacuum. Rather, they must think about when and how innovation has the ability to solve their organization's most pressing needs.

Epic was born from a humbling lesson borne by its CEO, Judy Faulkner. Yet this experience left an indelible mark on the company and its leader.

Kingston, N.Y.-based HealthAlliance Hospital and Margaretville (N.Y.) Hospital were hit by a cyberattack that has caused the temporary diversion of ambulances at HealthAlliance.

Houston Methodist went live with a pilot Oct. 19 that connects Amazon's Echo Dot with its Epic EHR system. 

Fayetteville, N.C.-based Cape Fear Valley Health disclosed that it suffered a data breach affecting 1,943 patients, The Fayetteville Observer reported Oct. 20.

A professor from University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center said he's worried that sophisticated, costly AI systems would only be implemented in high-resource hospitals, enhancing results for patients who are already relatively well-off.

Generative AI is a hot topic in the tech world, a field that has accelerated thanks to the massive strides that AI engines like GPT-4, Bard, and Bing AI have made throughout 2023.

Nine artificial intelligence companies will be mentored by Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic as part of its new accelerator class.

Satya Nadella, CEO and chairman of Microsoft, said Epic Systems is implementing an array of copilot solutions that leverage Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service and Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot.