Cerner CEO Brent Shafer will continue to serve as chairman and CEO until the board appoints his successor, Shafer said on a call with investment analysts to discuss quarterly earnings. Cerner posted $1.4 billion in revenue for 2021's first quarter, down 1.7%.

VisitPay's patient billing tools will bolster R1 RCM's patient experience platform, CEO Joe Flanagan said on a quarterly earnings call with investment analysts. R1 posted $342.6 million in revenue for 2021's first quarter, up 6.9%.

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions reported a 18.3% adjusted EBITDA margin for 2021's first quarter, as the company continues work on a margin improvement plan it launched a year ago.

Health equity was a major concern at a hearing hosted by the House Ways and Means health subcommittee.

The program, dubbed the Digital Inclusion Challenge, is sponsored by Google Cloud and Michigan-based IT firm Miracle Software Systems. The winning team will receive $75,000 and will participate in a co-development program at Henry Ford Innovations.

Under ONC's information-blocking rule, hospitals must be able to exchange all of a patient's electronic health information by October 2022.

Teladoc Health has hired Claus Jensen, a former executive at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and CVS Health, as its chief innovation officer.

Following its July IPO, employee benefits company Accolade is acquiring virtual primary-care startup PlushCare with plans to offer telehealth services directly to members.

Modern Healthcare caught up with Micky Tripathi, who leads HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, to discuss API innovation, enforcement and what else comes next after the interoperability and information-blocking regulations.

Clinicians at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health will staff the virtual urgent care service, with physicians from company MDLive's medical group providing back-up coverage.

Telehealth makes it easier for some patients with disabilities to access healthcare, bypassing common issues with transportation or lack of accommodations in facilities, but digital accessibility challenges remain.

ONC has emphasized the role APIs could play in launching a new market of apps in healthcare. But some providers, like those in the post-acute and long-term care settings, may not be using software that's required to make such tools available under the agency's long-awaited interoperability rule.

Chief information, medical and compliance officers are closely collaborating to implement new information-blocking and interoperability regulations from the federal government.

2021's first quarter represents the largest funding quarter to date for the digital health sector since 2010, according to a new analysis.

Memorial Hermann Health System, OSF HealthCare and University of Chicago Medical Center had patients affected in the data breach, in which a former Med-Data employee reportedly uploaded files with patient data to public repositories on GitHub.