Michigan Medicine, based in Ann Arbor, is strengthening its penalty for privacy violations regarding EHRs and patient portals, stating that inappropriate use or access to these systems will result in termination.

Researchers from the University of California San Diego testing ChatGPT's knowledge of public health questions found that the artificial intelligence-powered tool only referred users to public health resources in five out of 23 questions.

Illumina Ventures, a healthcare innovation venture firm partnered with life sciences company Illumina, launched Illumina Ventures Lab, an accelerator program that will work with early-stage companies in the life sciences industry.

The Justice Department has charged Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov on allegations of deploying LockBit ransomware on computer systems in the U.S., Asia, Europe and Africa. 

In 2021, when Scripps Mercy Hospital of San Diego was hit with a ransomware attack, it caused ripple effects to nearby hospitals, including UC San Diego Health, which had to see an influx of patients as they got diverted to…

The top five U.S. digital health companies by venture capital funding have raised more than $4.5 billion combined, according to a new PitchBook report.

Seattle-based UW Medicine plans to start charging for MyChart messages June 27, KIRO reported.

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center is raising the alarm on TimisoaraHackerTeam, a newer and relatively unknown ransomware group that targeted a U.S. cancer center in June.

St. Louis-based Ascension is facing a lawsuit for allegedly taking employees' fingerprints without their consent, Law360 reported June 16. 

The most recent Cerner layoffs could be attributed to the trouble the company has had in rolling out a new EHR system for the Department of Veterans Affairs, The Register reported June 16.