As hospitals and health systems have improved their cybersecurity, hackers have still been interrupting healthcare by setting their sights on third-party technology companies and suppliers.

It is clear that healthcare leaders are engaged in the artificial intelligence space. 

Nurses at Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth employ artificial intelligence to alert them to a potentially deadly condition for patients, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported.

IT leaders are embracing generative AI in healthcare but also expressing concerns that the technology can "drift."

Corewell Health has taken a unique approach to incorporating artificial intelligence into daily workflows and processes.

While some of the nation's largest health systems have fully recovered from the Feb. 21 ransomware attack on UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare, smaller systems are still grappling with its effects, an Aug. 13 report from Strata Decision Technology found.

Optum Ventures, the venture capital arm of Optum, is participating in a $180 million funding round for Caresyntax, a data-assisted surgery platform.

CVS Health has named Heidi Capozzi executive vice president and chief people officer. 

Hospitals and health systems are finding considerable success with generative AI-powered clinical documentation tools.

Kaiser Permanente has made a generative AI-powered clinical documentation tool available to providers across its 40 hospitals and over 600 medical offices.

EHR vendors Epic Systems and Oracle Health are partnering with health systems on new IT initiatives.

Better use of data and improved technology will boost clinical workflows and move more care to the home by 2035, the American Hospital Association reported Aug. 13.

As the healthcare industry increasingly embraces artificial intelligence, some regions are emerging as hot spots for the budding technology.

A California children's hospital adopted a note-writing platform from Epic, helping reduce the length of clinical notes and saving providers time.

Artificial intelligence has undoubtedly changed healthcare in the last 18 months. But not everything promised about AI has come true, caution several health system leaders.

Chicago-based Roseland Community Hospital Association identified unauthorized access to its IT network June 2.

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health has experienced a 3-to-1 return on investment from remote patient monitoring for value-based care patients, the American Medical Association reported.

A McLaren Health Care employee claimed staff were told they must use their paid time off to cover the days missed following the cyberattack that struck the organization on Aug. 6, Fox 2 Detroit reported.

Walmart has leased another one of its former healthcare centers.

Amazon's primary care subsidiary One Medical is set to lose its contract with Google by the end of 2024, the AHA reported.