An Alabama health system unveiled its new name in October amid a $250 million expansion.

A hospital with Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health responded to an op-ed in a California newspaper accusing the facility of ignoring overcrowding issues.

Google Cloud forged several partnerships with significant health systems and health plans in the last few years to develop generative AI solutions and tools designed to reduce administrative burden. Their work couldn't come at a better time, as burnout and inefficiencies plague hospitals across the country.

Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Health System will be the first healthcare provider to adopt a new real-time data tool from GE HealthCare for its hospital command center.

A federal grand jury indicted two Sudanese nationals for cyberattacks including a 2024 hack of Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai.

Oracle has launched a new service designed to simplify the payment process for healthcare organizations and their patients. 

Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health is expanding virtual nursing technology to nearly 1,000 patient rooms, representing about half its beds.

Watertown, S.D.-based Prairie Lakes Healthcare System has affiliated with Sanford Health to implement Epic as its new EHR system. 

Providence, R.I.-based Lifespan has rebranded as Brown University Health.

Talihina, Okla.-based Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority is one of 19 new health systems switching to an Epic EHR.

Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate has forged a new partnership with the Japan External Trade Organization to roll out a two-phase initiative aimed at expanding opportunities for Japanese health tech companies to engage with the U.S. healthcare market.

Duke University Health System has been an early adopter of a new tool from Microsoft and Epic that aims to streamline nursing documentation, Kay Lytle, DNP, RN, chief nursing information officer at the health system, told Becker's.

Iranian hackers are increasingly targeting healthcare organizations, using "brute force" and password spraying attacks to compromise user accounts and gain unauthorized access to sensitive systems. 

Cleveland Clinic allows nurses to submit innovative tech ideas and helps them develop the tools.

The costs of the Change Healthcare cyberattack continue to grow for parent company UnitedHealth Group.

Clinical documentation is an essential component of the patient-physician visit, but manual documentation is an onerous, time-consuming task. It takes a physician's focus away from the patient in front of them and is a major driver of physicians' cognitive burden and burnout.

In today’s healthcare environment, “downtime” is a dreaded word. Whether it’s due to an unexpected outage, a cyberattack or planned maintenance, any interruption in your health IT systems can severely impact hospital operations. For healthcare organizations, the stakes are high: the average cost of a one-hour EHR outage is approximately $1.7 million for a medium-sized hospital and for larger facilities that figure can jump to $3.2 million. Even more critical than the financial hit is the potential risk to patient safety. When systems are down, providers cannot access vital patient information, leading to delays in care, medication errors and increased workload as staff scramble to record notes manually—only to later input them into the system once it is back online.

International Annual Awards Program Honors Standout Digital Health & Medical Technology Products and Companies SAN DIEGO – May 9, 2024 – MedTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global digital health and medical technology market, today announced that CliniComp, the pioneer in high-performing, reliable electronic health record (EHR) solution suite, has been selected as winner of the “Best Electronic Health Record Service” award in the 8th annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards program, recognizing the breakthrough technology innovation of CliniComp’s System as a Service (SYaaS) unique and superior model.

A study conducted across seven hospitals within the Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System found that Epic's Deterioration Index underperformed compared to other early warning scores in detecting clinical deterioration.

Abridge, a startup that provides artificial intelligence-powered clinical documentation to several health systems, is raising $250 million to up the company's valuation to $2.5 billion, The Information reported.