As hospitals and health systems continue to invest in their artificial intelligence strategies, many have been teaming up with tech giants like Google and Microsoft to deploy healthcare AI tools that can alleviate their providers' burdens and optimize operations.

Morgan Stanley found that 94 percent of healthcare companies utilize artificial intelligence in some way and projected the average budget AI allocation to increase from 5.7 percent in 2022 to 10.5 percent in 2024.

Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health has partnered with DispatchHealth to deliver in-home urgent care through a program dubbed the Urgent Medical Care At-Home program. 

Grand Blanc, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care's billing system and EHR was affected by a computer network shutdown after its IT security team found suspicious activity during routine monitoring, Detroit Free Press reported Sept. 5. 

A rural Appalachian healthcare provider has boosted its connectivity by switching to Starlink satellite internet from Elon Musk's SpaceX, Virginia Business reported.

From deepening its integration of Microsoft's generative AI tools into its ecosystem to rolling out a new online app gallery, here are 14 of Epic Systems' biggest moves this year:

Brain-computer interface technology company Synchron announced the completion of patient enrollment for trials at New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System, University at Buffalo (N.Y.) Neurosurgery and Pittsburgh-based UPMC.

Tupelo-based North Mississippi Health Services shut down a data breach within 17 minutes of its IT system being accessed, the health system said.

Private equity firm Thoma Bravo is in advanced talks to buy EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare, Bloomberg reported Sept. 5.

Pittsburgh-based UPMC will be transferring 6 million patient records from nine EHRs to Epic Systems, a task that will involve 600 information technology technicians and as many as 1,200 physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other clinicians, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Sept. 5.