Jessica Kim Cohen

The two North Carolina-based health systems have signed a letter of intent to allow Novant Health to invest in HealthTeam Advantage, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cone Health.

Bakul Patel will serve as a senior director at the technology giant. He will focus on global digital health strategy and regulatory affairs.

Omnicell, which sells pharmacy and medication management technology, reported some products, services and internal systems have been hit with ransomware.

Zocdoc co-founder and former chief executive officer Cyrus Massoumi won an appeal to reinstate his lawsuit alleging that several executives at the company forced him out of his role in 2015.

Patients with limited English proficiency often face roadblocks receiving care via telehealth, from challenges logging into a video platform to getting a medical interpreter added to the virtual appointment.

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions has completed the sale of its hospital and large physician practices segment, with plans to home in on its Veradigm payer and life sciences business.

Inception Health—Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin’s innovation hub—launched an at-home COVID-19 monitoring program.

Health systems like Allegheny Health Network and Froedtert Health are standing up multimillion-dollar innovation centers in former office space, which could accelerate as organizations downsize in-office work.

Improved screening for left ventricular dysfunction could help providers prescribe treatments to prevent patients from developing symptoms and lower hospitalization and mortality risks.

Teladoc Health's stock sunk 38% in after-hours trading following its first-quarter earnings release.

Unlike consumer-focused industries, providers are bound by HIPAA—restricting what staff can post online, even in response to a patient complaint posted publicly.

A Tenet spokesperson declined to comment on how long IT applications were down and how many facilities were affected. At least a subset of Florida hospitals reportedly experienced phone and computer outages.

Epic Systems, followed by Meditech, had the largest growth in U.S. hospital facilities using their electronic health records software last year.

The Health and Human Services Department's Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center issued a warning about Hive, a ransomware group targeting the healthcare and public health sectors with "double extortion."

But while patient portals provide a convenient way to view data, they could be more useful if they also contextualized what the information means for patients and their care.