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.

El Paso, Texas-based Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare has revealed that patient records were inappropriately accessed and potentially disclosed by a former employee over a two-year period, from Jan. 1, 2018, to March 12, 2021.

Hackers targeted healthcare organizations with ransom demands ranging from $4,000 to $10 million, according to Comparitech.

Ransomware attacks have imposed significant financial burdens on U.S. healthcare providers, with an estimated $21.9 billion lost to downtime alone since 2018, according to Comparitech.com.

The best EHR vendors in North America prioritize interoperability, sophistication and cost, according to Black Book Research.

Despite a mixed year for venture capital investment in healthcare, three digital health companies became "unicorns" in 2024.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic researchers say patient portal messages have declined after the system began billing the interactions as e-visits, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Mergers and acquisitions are tough on health system IT teams. Workflow standardization and technology integration is a colossal task that becomes more difficult if the leadership team is focused on the digital product above service line alignment. Cleveland Clinic found this out the hard way.

Epic EHRs have been among the biggest health system investments for years — and 2024 was no exception.

Healthcare continued to be plagued by hackers and data leaks in 2024, with the industry experiencing its largest-ever cyberattack in February.

Americans turned to Google with a wide range of health questions in 2024, a recent analysis found.