The annual number of healthcare ransomware attacks more than doubled from 2016 to 2021, threatening patient safety and outcomes, a Dec. 29 study in JAMA Health Forum found.

Lake Charles (La.) Memorial Health System said an October data breach affected 269,752 patients, the organization told the HHS Office of Civil Rights.

The CDC is calling for vendors to provide white papers on utilizing EHR data to determine the effectiveness of vaccines against respiratory diseases, like COVID-19, Govexec reported Jan. 3.

Top healthcare systems across the country are constantly looking to hire new IT talent.

Laura Groschen, the former business unit CIO of Medtronic, has joined Franklin, Tenn.-based Acadia Healthcare Co., a behavioral health system, as its CIO.

Force Therapeutics, a digital remote monitoring and patient engagement platform, has gone live on the AWS Marketplace.

Microsoft is partnering with Apollo Hospitals, a Chennai-based Indian hospital chain, to train its artificial-intelligence-powered cardiac prognosis model on a dataset of South Asian patients, Analytics India Magazine reported Jan. 3.

Below are 10 hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking cybersecurity talent.

Digital data collection during routine clinical practice has become ubiquitous for hospitals and health systems, yet the archiving systems that store this data are often not designed to support research, according to Jan. 3. study published in Scientific Data. 

Three of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR incentive program are Oracle Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to ONC data. Here are 11 hospitals and health systems that have posted job listings seeking EHR and…