Physicians are turning to ChatGPT to craft more empathetic responses to patients, The New York Times reported June 12.

North Korea and China were listed as state actors that have been sponsoring hackers to target healthcare, according to a June 8 brief from the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center. 

St. Peter's Health, based in Helena, Mont., spent $25 million to switch to an Epic EHR system. 

Hospitals and health systems are most pleased with Epic's Beacon for their medical oncology EHR, KLAS Research reported.

LockBit 3.0, ClOp and Royal Ransomware are among the hacking groups using tactics to target U.S. healthcare, according to a June 8 brief from the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center. 

An Illinois hospital is believed to be the first healthcare facility to close because of a ransomware attack, NBC News reported June 12.

Aaron Miri, senior vice president and chief digital and information officer of Baptist Health, was appointed to the Florida Cybersecurity Advisory Council.

"AI as a co-pilot will be the next phase of the electronic health record," Eric Alper, MD, chief clinical informatics officer of Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health, told Worcester Business Journal. 

Even with a rocky funding environment, some healthcare companies have been able to raise massive venture capital hauls.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is using Google Cloud's generative artificial intelligence application that uses an AI-based chatbot to receive questions, pull information from internal web pages and documents and summarize information from EHRs to form questions, Post Bulletin reported June…