Morris (Ill.) Hospital & Healthcare Centers disclosed a data breach that affected 248,943 patients, according to a filing with the Maine Attorney General.

One of the greatest challenges health systems face when it comes to digital transformation is striking a balance between leveraging advanced technology and maintaining patient privacy, data security and ethical considerations, according to Terri Couts, RN, chief digital officer of…

In March, New York City-based NYU Langone Health requested access to Microsoft's private instances of GPT4 and now has one of the first HIPAA-compliant GPT4 ecosystems in healthcare. 

Visana Health, a virtual women's healthcare company based in Minneapolis, received $10.1 million in seed funding to expand its digital platform that provides clinical care for women's health conditions.

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.