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The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, ARPA-H, seeks to scale hospitals' cybersecurity capacity by automating patch deployments across networks and medical devices, speeding the time from vulnerability detection to software updates.

The guide, which encourages secure-by-design software development, is the latest in government efforts to shore up vulnerable organizations. It summarizes cybersecurity best practices and links to free support resources.

Craig Kwiatkowski is calibrating the pace of the health system's artificial intelligence adoption to ensure it's deploying generative AI safely and responsibly.

Its new survey of inpatient purchasing finds Epic as the only vendor to increase its net market share in 2023 – gaining 153 new hospital clients and now covering more than half of acute care multispecialty beds nationwide.

Using 14 key performance indicators (KPIs), decision-makers receive an overview of surgeon performance. This increased transparency aims to enhance the quality of care and identify potential areas for improvement.

It will support major reforms in the sector, particularly the introduction of a new consolidated law.

Sarah Hatchett, who had been serving as interim chief information officer since August 2023, will take on the role full time.

By 2030, there is projected to be a shortage of 120,000 cardiologists in the U.S. Combined with the decline in hospital beds and rising cost of heart failure, healthcare organizations need to find a way to detect heart failure earlier and at lower cost.

As cyberattacks increase in scope and intensity, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange is asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies to do more to help health systems maintain operational continuity.

Also: CommonSpirit reports increased earnings in the year after a major ransomware disruption and widespread data breach.