Sana Biotechnology, a cell and gene therapy company, is laying off 29 percent of its workforce, the company reported in an Oct. 10 SEC filing.

At hospitals and health systems, cyberattack costs and patient care disruptions were up in 2023, according to an Oct. 11 report.

Three new IT chiefs have been named to the board of trustees for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, which is also getting new officers for 2024 and 2025.

Hospitals and health systems have reported outsourcing IT jobs in a move to reduce operating costs and allow their former employees to retain jobs, but will this be a new norm for healthcare organizations?

San Diego-based Alvarado Hospital Medical Center will remain on Epic as it is sold to UC San Diego Health for $200 million, a UC San Diego spokesperson told Becker's.

Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center, based in Jasper, Ind., is offering a MyChart "fast pass" which allows patients to request to be placed on a digital wait list for an earlier appointment time. 

So far, in 2023, Becker's has reported on hospitals in Texas, Vermont, Ohio, Nebraska and Illinois switching to Meditech.

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health announced the launch of a new innovation center that will be located in San Francisco. 

From artificial intelligence writing patient portal messages for physicians to "hospital rooms of the future" equipped with voice assistants and video-based care, there are a lot of cool things in healthcare nowadays. But which are actually making a difference in…

Optimize Health, a remote patient monitoring company, raised $18 million in series B financing.