San Antonio-based CentroMed is reporting a data breach affecting 350,000 individuals, according to a filing with the HHS.

Ocean Springs, Miss.-based Singing River Health System, its three hospitals and its medical clinics are still resorting to paper records as the organization was forced to take its systems offline due to a cyberattack, BankInfoSecurity reported Aug. 24. 

A Eastern Connecticut Health Network nurse says staff are doing their best to make sense of their paychecks as their systems are still down due to a ransomware attack that started Aug. 3, WFSB reported Aug. 24. 

As the demands on hospital and health system staff seem to perpetually increase, organizations have been turning to technology to combat burnout. 

OSF HealthCare, based in Peoria, Ill., will expand its use of the Elemeno Health nursing education platform by implementing it across its 15 hospitals and ambulatory, hospice and home care settings.

Medical forms are often complicated and filled with jargon, making them difficult for patients to understand. Especially since they're put in front of people at already stressful moments.

Craig Kinyon, president and CEO of Richmond, Ind.-based Reid Health, said that as healthcare deals with financial challenges, the importance of technology and innovation at times like this is "undeniable." 

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is using artificial intelligence to directly assist clinicians, such as a monitoring program that can predict deterioration risk, rather than just creating algorithms, the AMA reported Aug. 25.

A new study revealed that 94.6 percent of hospitals across the country use telemedicine, often to combat staffing shortage issues.

A ransomware gang is auctioning off Social Security numbers, passport information and health data from more than 500,000 patients and employees of Culver City, Calif.-based Prospect Medical Holdings, CyberNews reported Aug. 24.