The CIOs of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospitals Honor Roll winners for 2025-26 have collectively been with their organizations for decades. Here are the IT chiefs at the publication’s top 10 children’s hospitals, released Oct. 7: Boston Children’s Hospital: Heather…

Some health systems have started pausing telehealth visits for Medicare beneficiaries as the government shutdown continues. Pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities ended Oct. 1 with the federal government stoppage, cutting off CMS reimbursement for many virtual visits. While many health systems are…

Police responded to a report of a shooting at Newport Beach, Calif.-based Hoag Hospital on the morning of Oct. 7, but determined there was no threat to the public, Los Angeles Times reported. Officers were dispatched to the hospital shortly…

Redundancy isn’t just a problem in health IT, it’s the status quo. Overlapping systems and bloated tech stacks make it difficult for healthcare leaders to identify which solutions actually drive results. Instead, health systems are flooded with digital clutter that…

Emporia, Kan.-based Newman Regional Health plans to launch a two-year telehealth initiative backed by a $485,000 grant. The Telehealth for Rural Health Equity Initiative is designed to expand telehealth services across the hospital’s primary care clinics and emergency department, according…

The AHA has launched a redesigned Cybersecurity and Risk Advisory webpage to help healthcare organizations bolster defenses against evolving cyber and physical threats. The updated hub provides centralized access to cybersecurity and risk news, resources, expert insights and advisory services,…

Israel-based Sheba Medical Center has launched its first U.S.-based accelerator program through its ARC Innovation Center, in partnership with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The ARC Boston Soft-Landing Pad will begin next March and run for six months. The program aims…

A bipartisan group of Pennsylvania state lawmakers has introduced a bill that would regulate healthcare AI use in the state. House Bill 1925 would require a human decision-maker when AI is involved in individualized patient assessments used by hospitals, clinicians…

Mergers and acquisitions are driving health systems to adopt new EHR systems. Here are the hospitals and health systems that are implementing new EHR systems or extending EHR systems to other facilities due to mergers or acquisitions, as reported by…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic have invested in a $24 million funding round for augmented reality startup MediView. The company, which was founded on intellectual property developed at Cleveland Clinic, has created an FDA-cleared augmented reality and AI…