The World Medical Innovation Forum brought clinical innovators and executives from Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham together with investors and tech company leaders Sept. 23-25 near Boston.

Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner said 100% of Epic health systems can interoperate and athenahealth has a high interoperability rate, but that still leaves a lot of organizations that can't easily share data.

The financial fallout from recent data breaches in the healthcare industry continues to raise alarms as organizations grapple with the costs of cyberattacks and ensuing lawsuits.

Healthcare is quickly integrating artificial intelligence into many administrative and clinical care functions. Early results at academic medical centers and large innovative health systems are showing areas where the technology (if deployed thoughtfully) can create a huge boon to hospitals and patient care.

Health system IT employees are keeping their options open, with 77% actively seeking new jobs or planning to do so within the next year, according to Bloomforce's "2024 EHR Salary Insights Report."

When CarynHealth™ embarked on its mission to provide low-cost, high-quality health plans to small and medium-sized businesses, it quickly became clear why this market is so underserved. The cost of doing business the usual way made it impossible to bring affordable plans to market. To enter this market required reimagining every process and system that a health plan relies upon to operate – with significant cost savings at every level. CarynHealth recognized this challenge as an opportunity for transformative change. The existing health IT infrastructure was burdened by high administrative costs and outdated software, which stifled innovation and accessibility.

According to KLAS, Oracle Health ranks second in the U.S. hospital market share, with approximately 23.4% of acute care hospitals utilizing its platform, following Epic.

Centivo, a healthcare company focused on providing affordable solutions for employers and their employees, has secured $75 million in equity and debt financing from the venture capital arms of Cone Health and MemorialCare Health System.

CMS has opened Merit-based Incentive Payment System reweighting requests to account for revenue cycle issues stemming from the Change Healthcare ransomware attack earlier this year.

From October 2020 and March 2024, the VA's Oracle Health EHR system experienced 826 "major performance incidents," a Sept. 23 report from the VA's inspector general office found. 

The April 29 email phishing campaign that compromised employee email accounts at Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health affected 32,120 individuals.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare is strengthening the next generation of healthcare data scientists through a partnership between affiliate TriStar Health and Meharry Medical College.

Four health system leaders have been named to Constellation Research's "Artificial Intelligence 150," a list that recognizes global executives leading AI transformation efforts. 

Three hospitals recently selected Oracle Health CommunityWorks as their integrated EHR supporting hospital and ambulatory settings.

Despite layoffs earlier this year, Amazon continues to hire for One Medical, the primary care company it bought in 2023 for $3.9 billion. Here are 10 job openings at One Medical.

A startup has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Epic Systems alleging that the company is leveraging its position in the EHR market to stifle competition in the payer platform sector.

IBM continues to deepen its partnerships with health systems, leveraging artificial intelligence to address some of healthcare's most pressing challenges.

UT Health Houston is partnering with OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT, to accelerate innovation and enhance healthcare efficiency.

Most health systems have some technical debt from past consolidation on the CIO's radar. While the technical debt might have been relegated to the bottom of their "to-do" lists in the past, too much technical debt could become a liability in the near future.

Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence are altering the IT staffing equation for health systems, CIOs told Becker's.