Florida hospitals are turning to a local health tech startup and Amazon's Alexa to relieve the nursing shortage in the state, the Tampa Bay Times reported.

Hospitals and health systems are increasingly turning to virtual nursing as a way to combat the nursing workforce shortage. Here are three hospitals and health systems who have expanded their virtual nursing throughout their organizations and across states:

From partnering with hospitals in Dubai and Nova Scotia, EHR giant Oracle Cerner has had a busy 2023 so far.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health and Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine partnered July 6 with artificial intelligence startup Laudio, according to a news release shared with Becker's.

The Regents of the University of California are suing an insurer they say denied payment for a 2014 cyberattack on Los Angeles-based UCLA Health, ABC7 Los Angeles reported.

Information security analysts in New York have the highest average annual salary at $138,730, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Epic Systems is partnering with Nuance, a clinical documentation software company owned by Microsoft, to integrate GPT-4-powered clinical documentation technology into the company's EHR software. 

Even as the tech industry experiences waves of layoffs, top healthcare systems across the country are looking to hire IT talent.

MetroHealth said it discovered that an employee was inappropriately accessing patient records since 2008, cleveland.com reported June 26. 

A recent study found the greater disruptions at nearby facilities grave enough to consider hospital ransomware attacks a "regional disaster," and the number of attacks are on track to increase in 2023, NPR reported June 25.