Pacific Dental Services and High Point (N.C.) University are partnerting to expand the use of the Epic EHR system to the university's dental school and associated dental practices.

The first drugs designed with the help of artificial intelligence are being tested in clinical trials, MIT Technology Review reported Feb. 15. 

Synchron, a brain-computer interface company backed by the venture capital arms of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, is halfway through a trial designed to show its brain implant is safe for humans, CNBC reported Feb. 18.

In 2022, the number of patient records breached increased by 18 percent compared to 2021 to 59.7 million, according to a new report from healthcare analytics company Protenus Breach Barometer. 

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare has expanded its digital hospital to patients transitioning out of the intensive care unit. The health system had been offering it to emergency patients at Peoria's Saint Francis Medical Center since August.

Four hospital and health system leaders will be judges at the Telehealth Innovators Challenge at the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference March 6.

Virtual nurses can relieve staffing shortages, keep aging nurses working longer, and cut down on administrative tasks for in-person nurses, hospital IT leaders told Becker's.

From employee insider breaches to an anonymous call informing a health system of a data breach, here are the health systems that have been affected by a cybersecurity or data breach incident since Feb. 28:

Health system interoperability is seeing improvement, as 88 percent of organizations report that they are involved in an EHR data exchange, according to a January report from ONC. 

Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network said it was attacked by Russian ransomware gang BlackCat, The (Allentown) Morning Call reported Feb. 20.