The COVID-19 pandemic intensified the need for new healthcare technology adoption at hospitals and health systems, and CIOs predict that this accelerated pace is likely to continue as organizations look for ways to optimize workflows, operations and increase efficiency.  

As of July 23, healthcare organizations covered by HIPAA have reported more than 330 breaches affecting 43 million people, Politico reported July 24. 

Hospital leaders trying to balance the need to reduce the cost of the Epic implementation process and keep the installation program in-house are being very mindful of how they use consultants.

EHR vendor Athenahealth is facing a lawsuit that alleges the company stole trade secrets, used deceptive business practices and breached its contract, Law360 reported July 20. 

The Palo Alto (Calif.) VA Medical Center is one of the first VA health systems to go fully 5G.

FTC and HHS sent a joint letter to approximately 130 hospital systems and telehealth providers to alert them of the privacy and security risks of using online tracking technologies within their websites or mobile apps.

Google is continuing its expansion into virtual care as it makes virtual care platform Pager available on Google Cloud Marketplace.

The cost of a healthcare data breach is averaging nearly $11 million as hackers realize the value of the information stored by hospitals and health systems, a July 24 IBM report found.

DeepScribe, a company focused on leveraging artificial intelligence to serve as a medical scribe, contracts with 200 humans to listen in on medical visit recordings and fix the AI's errors, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott is urging the FBI to investigate a cyberattack at Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital that compromised the protected health information of 1.2 million patients.