An unauthorized individual accessed an employee email account from Sparta (Ill.) Community Hospital District that contained some protected health information. 

More than 25,000 Pittsburgh-based UPMC patients are being notified that some of their protected health information may have been compromised due to a breach that occurred at its billing and collection services provider, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported June 13.    

Since its acquisition of Cerner, the combined Oracle Cerner entity has been a major player in the EHR market.

Hershey, Pa.-based Penn State Health launched a subscription virtual care service June 13 that allows unlimited visits for members.

Healthcare organizations have been embracing digital transformation to provide higher levels of flexible care and work towards universal access for underserved populations. The pandemic greatly accelerated these efforts, prompting providers to expand their efforts around remote clinics, telemedicine and other…

Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, has been named chief of the new Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation at San Francisco-based UCSF Health.

As artificial intelligence proliferates, many companies — including health systems — have been naming chief AI officers to oversee the new technology.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the health system let companies such as Google, Twitter and Microsoft intercept certain patient data, Bloomberg Law reported June 12.

EHR vendor Cerner, which was acquired by Oracle on June 8, 2022, has contributed $1.5 billion in total revenue for the tech company. 

Becker's recently asked ChatGPT and a real-life health system CIO the same question: "What will be the three biggest IT issues for hospitals and health systems in five years?"