Carilion Clinic, CoxHealth and Geisinger Health are among the systems outsourcing such technology services as support, cybersecurity and data management.
In terms of patients affected, December marked the second-highest month in 2020 for healthcare data breaches. It's second to September, when 9.9 million patients had data exposed.
Google has completed its purchase of wearables company Fitbit following an approval by EU regulators. But the U.S. Justice Department says its probe into the deal is ongoing.