Hospital IT executives are leaving their roles at health systems to pursue new endeavors at companies like Amazon and Target. 

Although heart disease has long been known a leading cause of morbidity worldwide, it takes too long for evidence-based research to translate into direct patient care when it comes to pharmaceutical therapies.

Since Oracle completed its $28.4 billion acquisition of Cerner in June, the tech giant has made multiple changes to Cerner's leadership and operations. 

Boston-based Mass General Brigham and Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth have joined a $20 million funding round for clinical data company Carta Healthcare.

The medtech market is rapidly changing and health IT professionals need to be aware of the best roles available. Readwrite.com compiled a list of the seven best health IT jobs:

Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed is facing a patient-led lawsuit for installing a pixel tracking tool from Facebook on its website and patient portal that allegedly led to patient data being sent to the social media company.  

Below are six health systems that launched a new Epic EHR system or announced plans to do so since Oct. 10. 

Boomerang Medical, a bioelectronic medicine company, has raised $15 million in series A financing.

ModMed, a cloud-based EHR vendor for specialty practices, settled a lawsuit from the U.S. Justice Department for $45 million. 

Brightline, a pediatric telemental health startup that has raised over $200 million, including from health systems and other healthcare organizations, has laid off a fifth of its staff.