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…

ChatGPT and similar generative artificial intelligence technologies present a "bleak outlook for interoperability and fairness," a business tech professor wrote in Health Affairs.

DNA testing company 23andMe said it plans to lay off about 75 employees, or 9 percent of its staff, in a cost-cutting move, according to a securities filing.

St. Louis-based Ascension said more than 18,000 patients at hospitals in Texas may have had their data compromised in a recent breach.

A 24/7 telehealth program established by Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine for its employees was 23 percent less expensive than providing in-person visits for the same conditions.

Columbus-based Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center plans to offer a pancreatic cancer clinical trial to patients across the country via telehealth, WCMH reported June 9.