Indiana University Health, based in Indianapolis, reported a security incident involving a team member's email account that may have exposed limited patient information, including a small number of Social Security numbers.

Centre County Judge Brian Marshall has granted preliminary approval to a $1.8 million settlement in a lawsuit against Mount Nittany Health, potentially providing payments to about 74,000 patients, Centre Daily Times reported Jan. 6.

UC San Diego Health is exploring the possibility of using artificial intelligence-supported cameras to detect potential patient issues — such as patient falls and bed sores — before they occur, the health system confirmed in a statement shared with Becker's.

While companies such as Epic and Oracle Health dominate the North American EHR market, that isn't the case everywhere.

Providence's venture capital arm has spun off from the health system and rebranded as Allumia Ventures.

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital has agreed to pay $6.8 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a data breach that compromised the personal information of about 2.1 million individuals, Top Class Action reported Jan. 3.

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health has sold its proprietary behavioral health analytics model to Philadelphia-based NeuroFlow, a behavioral health technology company, to expand the model's reach and impact.

In 2025, health system IT and digital leaders plan to focus on the common (data and cybersecurity) and the novel (creative voice artificial intelligence and inpatient digital "highways").

Judy Faulkner, founder and CEO of Epic Systems, has embedded "caring" into the company culture.

Uvalde (Texas) Memorial Hospital has transitioned to the latest version of its Meditech EHR system, Meditech Expanse, Uvalde Leader-News reported Jan. 5.

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport, Mass., and its parent organization, Boston-based Beth Israel Lahey Health, over a December 2023 data breach that exposed the personal and medical information of 316,342 patients.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Ardent Health plans to integrate 18 urgent care clinics recently acquired from Tempe, Ariz.-based NextCare Urgent Care into its Epic EHR.

A data breach at Staten Island, N.Y.-based Richmond University Medical Center has potentially exposed sensitive personal and health information of 674,033 individuals.

ModMed led EHR vendors in appearing the most times on Black Book Research's 2025 list of the top EHRs by medical specialty.

Healthcare organizations are ramping up their cybersecurity defenses, with a growing focus on third-party risk management, network security and proactive infrastructure improvements, a Jan. 2 report from KLAS found.

Watsonville Community Hospital in California has fully restored access to its IT network after a cyberattack in late November forced the facility to adopt downtime procedures.

Staffing shortages have been identified as the top cybersecurity challenge facing healthcare organizations, a Jan. 2 report from KLAS found.

The top six EHR vendors globally include three that also hold sway over the U.S. healthcare landscape, according to Black Book Research.

Health systems implementing new technologies must bridge the gap between the knowledge base and patient care to deliver novel therapies at the bedside and fully transform best practices with those new capabilities.

After building Epic from humble beginnings into an EHR powerhouse, company founder and CEO Judy Faulkner first appeared on the Forbes 400 list in 2012.