Epic Systems founder and CEO Judy Faulkner told audiences at the company's annual Users Group Meeting that the healthcare industry is adrift at sea because of challenges like provider burnout, staffing shortages, and provider and customer satisfaction, The Cap Times…

Epic is tapping into generative AI to roll out more tools to help hospitals and health systems save time on documentation, as well as coding and billing processes. 

Tampa (Fla.) General is facing three lawsuits for a May 31 data breach that affected 1.2 million patients, Florida Record reported Aug. 22. 

Telemedicine received the highest ratings when 1,000 U.S. patients were asked about the easiest way to obtain a diagnosis.

Biotech company Willow Biosciences is partnering with an unnamed Nasdaq biopharma company to pursue sustainable manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients.

Hospitals and health systems around the country are being sued for their use of the Meta Pixel, which plaintiffs say shared their protected health information with the tech giant, allowing it to tailor ads based on their medical conditions.

A server outage has caused Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health's data center to experience an outage, ksltv.com reported Aug. 22.  

Epic's Cosmos clinical informatics database is allowing health systems and researchers to find insights on how to treat blood pressure and rare diseases and even identify victims of human trafficking, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Aug. 23.

While digital health funding levels in the second quarter of 2023 hit lows not seen since 2017, investors have ensured artificial intelligence remains on the rise in the healthcare space.

A report from cybersecurity vendor Critical Insight found that 40 million patients' medical information has been involved in data breaches so far this year; at this rate, 2023 will break the record for most individuals affected in breaches.