Epic doesn’t just want to sell health systems software anymore — it wants to staff their IT departments, too. That’s the idea behind Epic Rangers, a new long-term staffing program the EHR giant unveiled at last week’s Users Group Meeting.…

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has moved about 70,000 users onto Epic as it pushes toward the next phase of its $1.2 billion enterprise EHR overhaul, COO Kevin Beiner told Becker’s. Northwell will bring its next wave of hospitals…

Thirty-four percent of U.S. adults use AI chatbots for at least one health-related reason, an Aug. 25 report from Pew Research Center found. The findings come from a survey of 3,488 U.S. adults conducted June 22-28 and follow a KFF…

Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health’s Hospital at Home program has provided hospital-level care to more than 1,000 patients in the Richmond region since launching in 2023. The program, run through VCU Medical Center, delivers acute inpatient care directly to patients’ homes.…

Patients at Fort Worth, Texas-based JPS Health Network are facing lasting consequences from a network outage that stretched nearly two weeks, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. JPS Health Network operated under a “controlled network downtime” starting Aug. 3 after detecting…

National Nurses United will hold demonstrations against Palantir in eight U.S. cities on Aug. 27, calling on hospitals and elected officials to end contracts with the data analytics company. The protests, described by the union as its largest coordinated action…

Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System made a strategic investment in PartsSource, deepening an existing partnership with the healthcare technology platform. PartsSource, headquartered in Hudson, Ohio, operates an enterprise platform that unifies parts sourcing, service contracts, asset intelligence and workforce capacity…

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned four Iranian hackers accused of breaching U.S. healthcare institutions and other critical infrastructure targets. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Keyvan Fayyaz Ghareh Blagh, Saber Shahbazi Balujeh, Mohammad Reza Kadkhoda’i and Mojtaba…

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is not requiring hospitals to join its overhauled emergency room injury-reporting system, despite internal guidance that told hospitals otherwise, Nextgov/FCW reported Aug. 24. The program, called NEISS-R, would expand CPSC’s injury surveillance sample from roughly…

Most ambient AI deployments in healthcare follow the same arc: a physician pilot in outpatient settings, a proof of concept, a measured expansion to more clinic sites. Kevin Cook, divisional president of Sacramento-based Sutter Health’s Greater Silicon Valley Market, has…