As more hospitals turn toward 5G cellular networks, Houston Methodist Chief Technology Officer Jim Francis told Becker's "5G by itself isn't going to be the solution."

While hospital and health system CIOs come to the IT leadership roles from a variety of backgrounds, some made stops at EHR vendors such as Epic and Cerner earlier in their careers.

From 2017 to July 2023, data breaches have cost healthcare organizations more than $39 billion, according to a new report from Comparitech. 

Advocate Aurora Health has agreed to pay a $12.25 million settlement after it was hit with multiple lawsuits about pixel tracking technology that was placed on its website and patient portals, BankInfoSecurity reported Aug. 16.  

Here are three hospitals and health systems that have implemented new EHR systems or announced plans to do so since Aug. 2:

New York City-based Mount Sinai, who has one of the largest production instances of Epic running on Microsoft's cloud, says the move has been able to reduce upfront infrastructure costs and accelerate the health system's integration of AI. 

KeyCare, the only Epic-based virtual care company in the U.S., ended its first year with 10 health system and health tech partnerships.

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care CEO and President David Entwistle is joining the board of directors of healthcare innovation company and startup builder Redesign Health.

Cleveland Clinic, a nonprofit academic medical center, made several IT leadership changes in recent weeks.

Jefferson Health's maintenance vendor informed the health system that a portable backup drive was missing from its DEXA scan device at its Jefferson Cherry Hill (N.J.) Hospital.