Hospitals continue to seek out Big Tech companies to expand their digital health and EHR capabilities.

Keith Jones, associate CIO of Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health, told Becker's that as technology continues to evolve and change, hospitals and health systems must invest in their people to make sure they are ready for that change, especially if they're…

Digital health megarounds declined 85 percent year over year, accounting for just $575 million in the first quarter of 2023, a new CB Insights report found.

Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Healthcare said it is still investigating a May 9 cyber event, but that it is getting closer to resuming operations that have been affected by it. 

Epic has been working on interoperability for years and announced new efforts in recent months.

After digital health funding plummeted for four quarters straight, it has stayed steady, reaching $3.4 billion in the first quarter of 2023, according to a May 23 report from CB Insights. 

EHR vendor Epic Systems and Microsoft are training Azure OpenAI on a large collection of information so it can asynchronously draft responses to patient messages for providers, and hospitals and health systems have already begun piloting it. 

Mergers and acquisitions in the medtech industry are accelerating with venture capital firms making investments of $1.8 billion in the first quarter of 2023, according to a May 23 report from capital market company PitchBook. 

The Biden administration has launched three new national AI strategies aimed at regulating artificial intelligence tools.  

An updated guide to help hospitals and healthcare facilities prevent ransomware attacks and subsequent data extortion tactics was rolled out May 24 by a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI task force.