The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Heart Institute identified a suspected cybersecurity attack on its IT network in April, and an investigation confirmed that an unauthorized third party accessed the network and obtained copies of confidential patient data.

Hospitals that merge are particularly vulnerable to data breaches in the period during and right after the acquisitions, according to research at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Biobeat, a wearable remote patient monitoring company, completed its integration with Epic, as it looks to expand into the U.S. healthcare market.

Amid challenges like staff shortages, physician burnout and endless administrative tasks, hospitals and health systems still are striving to scale their services and impact. To make improvements that are sustainable and efficient, many are revisiting their provider credentialing processes.

Epic Systems received 88.7 out of 100 on overall performance in a report on customer perceptions from KLAS Research, while Cerner received a 67.6.

Hospitals' "digital front door" strategy continues into post-care, with patient portals being used more and more by providers and patients alike.

AVA, standing for AI virtual assistant, is UNC Health's internal version of ChatGPT that is hosted within the health system's own secure environment.

Cleveland Clinic and its IBM-managed quantum computer are taking on the task of exploring how quantum computing can optimize healthcare's complex systems and drug discovery and seeing if it can provide more accuracy than AI models. 

Healthcare has been slow to adopt synthetic data because it's expensive and hard to mimic actual patient information, The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 2.

Executives from health systems such as Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente are joining forces with Big Tech leaders to develop a "code of conduct" for the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare.