Can ChatGPT help physicians communicate bad news to patients more compassionately? Oncologist Ranjana Srivastava, MD, wrote June 21 in The Guardian that she is already using the artificial intelligence chatbot for this purpose.

Hospital and health system CIOs told Becker's that to make their IT departments more robust, they need more IT workers with specialized skill sets and bigger budgets.

A growing number of health systems are starting to charge patients for asking for their physicians' advice through online patient portals, such as MyChart. Here are some hospitals and health systems partaking in the trend:

Here are the IT leaders of U.S. News & World Report's top 10 children's hospitals for 2023-24, rankings that were unveiled June 21.

Health tech venture firm Windham Ventures named David Kereiakes, a former leader of Renton, Wash.-based Providence's venture capital arm, as a managing partner.

Mountain View, Calif.-based El Camino Health is using a donation from philanthropists Pamela and Edward Taft to launch a fund dedicated to healthcare technology innovation.

GV, formerly Google Ventures, co-led a $16.75 million series A funding round for Caraway, a company offering digital mental, reproductive and physical health services for Generation Z patients.

New Lenox, Ill.-based Silver Cross Hospital is expanding its online scheduling program to include primary care, gastroenterology and cardiology after a successful partnership with the online scheduling platform Kyruus ProviderMatch.

Hospitals across the U.S. are receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding, community grants and donations to purchase, create, upgrade and install better IT equipment and IT hubs.

ONC has formed a pharmacy IT task force that includes executives from health systems and EHR executives.