HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital has opened a new 3,000-square-foot simulation lab that will help train medical residents from across the globe, WWSB reported.

NextGen Healthcare, an EHR vendor and healthcare software company, launched an ambient listening tool that can generate summaries of patient and clinician conversations. 

Samsung announced that it will use the b.well Connected Health platform to allow Samsung Health users to access care and create a health record within a single application on Galaxy phones.

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives has recognized several hospitals and health systems as achieving level 10 status in its 2023 "Digital Health Most Wired" program.

Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health has moved its EHR playground workload from its on-premise environment to Google Cloud. 

The American Hospital Association is asking CMS to stop a pending requirement that healthcare providers list their addresses if they're providing telehealth from their homes.

The Drug Enforcement Administration extended certain COVID-19 era rules to allow healthcare providers to continue prescribing certain controlled substances via telehealth through the end of 2024, The Hill reported Oct. 6.

Harrington Hospital System, based in Southbridge, Mass., went live with an Epic EHR system Oct. 2. 

Epic CEO Judy Faulkner's net worth is now $7.4 billion, according to Forbes, up 10% from $6.7 billion as reported in 2022. 

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is partnering with Instacart to study the effect of expanding access to food on health outcomes.