Andrea Fox

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.

Under the subcontract the company will help the U.S. Centers for Disease Control examine applications and help migrate systems to the cloud as part of the agency's digital transformation.

The ONC study of national survey data examined the percentage by race and ethnicity of patients offered access to a patient portal, and the role of providers in facilitating the process. For those offered access, health disparities largely diminished.

Cloud-based indexing can fix duplicate patient records, improving interoperability and patient outcomes for health information exchanges like etHIN.

After two years of corporate streamlining, the longtime health IT vendor will offer connectivity and analytics tools under a new name.