The Florida legislature passed an update to the Florida Electronic Health Records Exchange Act banning healthcare organizations using certified health record technology from storing EHR data outside the continental U.S., its territories and Canada, The HIPAA Journal reported June 2.

Fifty-one percent of hospitals and health systems plan to join a health information exchange network such as the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, a May 31 survey from the American Hospital Association found. 

Peoria-based OSF HealthCare and Bradley University gave out their first Innovation for Health grants totaling nearly $200,000, the 15-hospital system said June 1.

Biotech and precision medicine giant Illumina unveiled PrimateAI-3D, a new artificial intelligence algorithm that predicts disease-causing genetic mutations.

Pharmaceutical and biotech giant Bayer is launching a new precision medicine unit that will focus on the creation of digital health tools.

Artificial intelligence is all the rage right now, and healthcare companies using AI are raising some massive hauls.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Ardent Health Services is installing a new digital health platform through a partnership with Loyal.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare employees were forced to quickly adapt to numerous operational and clinical practice challenges. However, while many employees adapted, workplace stress and administrative burdens have caused some employees to leave the workforce and have exacerbated labor…

Leaders from three health systems helped draft a framework they say can better evaluate digital health interventions.

Allina Health System, based in Minneapolis, has been turning patients away who have too much medical debt, stating that patients must pay off the debt in order to receive certain specialty services, The New York Times reported June 1.