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.

Cleveland-based University Hospitals entered into a 10-year partnership with GE HealthCare to implement new technologies across its radiology practice and at its UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute. 

The Department of Veterans Affairs signed a data-sharing pledge with 13 health systems, including Pittsburgh-based UPMC and Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, Federal News Network reported Oct. 6.

Marietta (Ohio) Health, which operates as Memorial Health System, has agreed to pay $1.75 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the health system failed to protect patients' health information during a 2021 data breach, Top Class Actions reported Oct.…

Karen DeSalvo, MD, chief health officer of Google, wrote in an Oct. 3 Google blog post that AI will not replace physicians, but instead, clinicians who use AI will replace clinicians without AI. 

Annalee Knowles, a physician assistant who was working at NCH Healthcare System, based in Naples, Fla., has posted patients' confidential information to her Instagram story, Naples Daily News reported Oct. 5. 

A four-hour IT disruption at Kansas City (Mo.) VA Medical Center was caused by a cat jumping on an employee's keyboard, The Register reported Oct. 5.