The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency partnered with the FBI to recommend new mitigation tactics to combat BlackSuit ransomware attacks, which have spread across the healthcare industry.

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital is rolling out an artificial intelligence platform to make staffing suggestions and predict case durations in the operating room.

Cybercrime is akin to a  "chronic disease" that must be managed through increased safeguards and federal collaboration, the American Hospital Association's chief executive wrote Aug. 8.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is partnering with artificial intelligence company SandboxAQ to explore the potential of AI-driven magnetocardiography technology.

Kaiser Permanente's partnership with Target shows that health systems don't have to sacrifice quality of care for convenience, a Permanente Federation executive wrote in Medical Economics.

CMS has finalized a rule intended to improve access to breakthrough medical devices for people with Medicare.

Meditech has launched a new nationwide health information exchange network for its U.S. customers base.

An organization that supplies blood to hundreds of hospitals is back to normal operations following a July 29 ransomware attack.

Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health is moving to an Epic EHR system. 

Three health systems were named winners at PR Daily's 2024 Social Media, Digital & Content Marketing Awards.

Seattle Children's has recreated its facility in Minecraft, a video game developed by Mojang Studios.

A health system leader has been named the inaugural chief nursing officer of generative AI startup Hippocratic AI.

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A convicted hospital hacker wasn't involved in the recent U.S.-Russia prisoner swap but could be part of a future exchange, The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 7.

Dover, Del.-based Bayhealth identified unusual computer system activity July 31 and took action to contain the issue, according to an Aug. 3 post on Bayhealth's Facebook account.

HHS has suspended sanctions and penalties for specific violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, offering hospitals in the path of Tropical Storm Debby greater flexibility in their response efforts.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Ascension Saint Thomas is introducing an AI-powered administrative assistant to its second- and third-year internal medicine residents.

Richmond, Ind.-based Reid Health is the latest health system to ink a generative AI deal with Abridge.

McLaren Health Care confirmed the Aug. 6 IT disruption was the result of a "criminal cyberattack," and the health system is continuing to restore its IT and phone systems.

Amazon is collaborating with health systems such as Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care, Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham and New York City-based Mount Sinai to investigate how AI can improve patient experiences and outcomes.