Andrea Fox
Toronto's hospital system announced a widespread network outage that resolved the following day. It's a stark contrast to a ransomware attack on the city's Hospital for Sick Children just a few weeks before.
The subscription-based service sends semi-customized supportive texts based on what users input about their experiences when signing up and without initiation.
A government-funded study found 27% of pediatric nurses surveyed reporting burnout. Those that didn't cited open communication and unit-level teamwork as key factors.
States reported high utilization of behavioral telehealth services across all or most populations served by Medicaid. Many reported permanent adoption of pandemic-era telehealth policy expansions.
The deal creates a $1 billion company focused on AI-powered hospital operations, helping clients address capacity management and healthcare staffing shortages.
The frequency of cyberattacks on hospitals and health systems more than doubled from 2016 to 2021, say researchers, and the incidents have exposed the protected health information of nearly 42 million patients.
The network is bringing a virtual lactation consultation platform to thousands of Connecticut and Massachusetts newborns and families through a partnership with Nest Collaborative.
Through a new partnership with Cadence, the health system plans to launch a responsive virtual care and remote patient monitoring program at 30 hospitals and 200 care sites in six states over the next year.
A private health services organization said it was the victim of a ransomware attack that may have exposed sensitive health and insurance information to an unauthorized individual.
The social media giant says it will appeal the European Union's decision that Meta Platforms violated GDPR. We asked one privacy lawyer whether the decision might penetrate the company's reliance on contractual necessity in the U.S.