Catholic Health's Mercy Hospital of Buffalo (N.Y.) will launch a new technology aimed at improving communication between physicians and first responders, WIVB reported Sept. 26. 

An audit conducted at Rapides Parish, La.-based Alexandria VA Medical Center found that the hospital has multiple deficiencies in its information technology systems, including uninstalled security patches and outdated operating systems. 

Chinese state-sponsored hackers known as APT41 are a threat to the U.S. healthcare industry, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center warned Sept. 22. 

The EHR landscape is changing rapidly, and executives at the two companies with the largest hospital market share, Epic and Oracle Cerner, are in a race to dominate the next iteration of health IT.

Des Moines, Iowa-based MercyOne has partnered with Signify Health to help manage risk-based payment arrangements and total costs of care for Iowa Medicare patients.

Several hospital and medical associations are asking HHS to delay by a year the new information blocking rules that are scheduled to go into effect Oct. 6.

One of the most active ransomware groups targeting the healthcare sector, LockBit, has published 12 gigabytes of patient and staff data from a 1,000-bed French hospital, Bank Info Security reported Sept. 26. 

Ten healthcare organizations are asking HHS to give healthcare providers an additional year to comply with information-sharing regulations in the 21st Century Cures Act.

Here are five of the highest-paying cybersecurity jobs, according to a Sept. 26 Fortune analysis of salary data.

Tech workers are in high demand right now, and some of the top health systems have dozens of openings for IT talent.