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.

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System has opened a 150,000-square-foot innovation center to advance clinical research and discoveries.

Amwell, a company that provides a digital health platform to patients, announced a partnership with Nestle Health Science, a nutrition-focused business unit of Nestle.

Ascension, CommonSpirit and NYU Langone are all searching for IT talent.