CIOs at top firms are prioritizing retaining and hiring new IT talent in 2023, The Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 27.

San Diego-based Scripps Health has agreed to pay $3.57 million to settle a lawsuit from victims of a May 2021 ransomware attack that led to a massive data breach, CBS8 reported Dec. 27.

Casey Canfield, PhD, a professor at Rolla-based Missouri University of Science and Technology, is partnering with SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital to study how artificial intelligence could help match kidney donors with recipients, St. Louis NPR reported Dec. 27.

Researchers at New York City-based Mount Sinai health system used machine learning to derive a "digital biomarker" from EHR data that can accurately diagnose coronary artery disease, TCTMD reported Dec. 27.

Bart Stupak, a former U.S. representative serving Northern Michigan, is lobbying to let online telehealth startups continue to prescribe controlled substances, Bloomberg reported Dec. 27.

Cybersecurity dominated healthcare news in 2022; high-profile data breaches and cyberattacks showed that healthcare organizations' cybersecurity postures are increasingly tied to their financial bottom line.

Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center is losing staff and seeing high staff frustration as the Spokane, Wash.-based hospital continues to use the Oracle Cerner EHR, first rolled out in 2018 and paused in July, The Spokesman Review reported Dec. 26.

The valuations of tech companies declined in the third quarter of 2022, indicating that investors remained cautious and limited their risk exposure compared to the first two quarters of 2022, a new report from market research firm CB Insights found.

Lake Charles (La.) Health System is alerting its patients that in October, an unauthorized third party was able to access its network, chron.com reported Dec. 26.

General Catalyst solidified its role as a disrupter within the healthcare venture capital space in 2021, when Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare sold its PatientKeeper technology to General Catalyst portfolio company Commure. In 2022, the firm continued to make waves within…