While ransomware attacks are decreasing overall in 2025, that is not the case in healthcare, Techloy reported. Public ransomware victim listings on dark web leak sites declined nearly 30% in the first quarter of the year compared to Q2, from…

Athenahealth has introduced new AI-enabled interoperability capabilities for its athenaOne platform. The upgrades are designed to move the ambulatory care industry beyond compliance-based data sharing toward “intelligent interoperability,” which surfaces relevant clinical insights in real time at the point of…

Companies such as Amazon are deploying a new hybrid approach to AI that could be used in healthcare, The Wall Street Journal reported. Neurosymbolic AI mixes the neural networks that power platforms like ChatGPT with symbolic reasoning, which uses logic…

Waukon, Iowa-based Veterans Memorial Hospital is taking a financial loss from a recent Epic EHR implementation, the Waukon Standard reported. The 25-bed critical access hospital went live June 14 with Epic for a cost of $3.88 million, with the EHR…

The professional journey of Michael Ash, MD, has taken him from EHR vendor Cerner to a health system IT executive to, now, the CEO of Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine. It’s a unique career path that has given him distinct insights into…

Meditech has partnered with AvoMD to embed the company’s AI scribe technology into its Expanse EHR.  Avo’s ambient listening tool will now be available natively to hospitals using Meditech, offering AI-driven support for clinical documentation, care recommendations, differential diagnoses, clinical…

One of the biggest challenges for hospitals across the U.S. is adding capacity to serve more patients with a higher degree of quality outcomes. Sacramento-based Sutter Health is cracking the code to care for patient volume growth, and their solution…

Spokane, Wash.-based Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center has fired 15 nurses for violating HIPAA, The Spokesman-Review in Spokane reported. The hospital claims the nurses improperly accessed the medical records of a 12-year-old girl who died by suicide in April, according…

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has created a new leadership role: associate chief health informatics officer for EHR platform and innovation. Stephon Proctor, PhD, assumed the position on July 1. In the role, Dr. Proctor will focus on strategic leadership, EHR…

Epic is incorporating AI into charting in its EHR to make clinicians’ jobs easier, the company said. “AI in Epic is like a new digital workforce that’s part of the care team,” Brad Fox, MD, director of clinical informatics at…