South Bend, Ind.-based University of Notre Dame is partnering with IT company Accenture to increase health equity through data analysis.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Ardent Health Services is rolling out remote patient monitoring across its 30 hospitals and 200 other care sites through a partnership with health tech company Cadence.

Two employee email accounts associated with Plano, Texas-based Live Oak Surgery Center were compromised by an unauthorized third party, which in turn potentially caused the information of 5,264 patients to be viewed or taken. 

President Biden has signed the Strengthening VA Cybersecurity Act of 2022, which requires the Department of Veteran Affairs to obtain an independent audit of its IT systems and cybersecurity programs, FedScoop reported Jan. 4. 

An employee of the University of Miami Health System had their email account compromised by an unknown party, leading to some patient information possibly being obtained. 

Nearly half of ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations disrupted care delivery, a Dec. 29 study in JAMA Health Forum found.

Clop ransomware group has reportedly been infecting files that look like medical documents and subsequently requesting medical appointments in hopes of getting victims to open the malicious files, HHS warned in a Jan. 4 analyst note. 

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has rolled out a new telehealth indicator that helps beneficiaries and caregivers find clinicians who provide telehealth services.

Teladoc has rolled out a new app that integrates services for primary care, mental health and chronic condition management. 

Mental health treatment appears to have increased as a result of expanded telehealth use during the pandemic, a Jan. 6 JAMA Health Forum study found.