Healthcare had an innovative year, with many new technologies entering the frame for hospitals and health system innovation arms investing in promising solutions.

The threat of cyberattacks dominated IT news in 2022 and forced chief information security officers and CIOs to work closer together than ever before, The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 30.

Enveda Biosciences, a drug discovery platform and biotech company, raised $68 million in a series B funding round and debt financing agreement.

Clop, a ransomware group known for its role in the Accellion data breach, has changed its tactics to infect files disguised as medical documents and images, SCMedia reported Dec. 20.

Laurel, Miss.-based Family Health Center has selected eClinicalWorks as its EHR vendor.

Some of the top health systems and hospitals across the country are looking to hire new IT talent. 

Health venture capitalists had a busy year in 2022. From navigating inflationary pressures, mass tech layoffs and the continued effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the digital health industry, investors and financiers faced a myriad of challenges.

BioTelemetry, now a Royal Phillips company, agreed to pay $44.875 million to settle allegations that the company improperly billed Medicare by outsourcing heart monitoring services to India between 2013 and 2022. 

From EHR vendors touting big plans to create national patient databases, to their plans to move forward with interoperability efforts, here is what hospital and health system CIOs can expect from electronic health records vendors in 2023:

From increased investments into virtual reality, to being laser focused on IT staffing shortages, here are nine key industry trends and priorities CIOs are looking to address in 2023: