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2nd system adopts Amazon's checkout-free technology

Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare’s St. Joseph Hospital in Tampa, Fla., is the second system to use Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology in its cafe, the Tampa Bay Times reported July 11.

Lurie Children's Hospital hit with lawsuit over data breach of 792,000

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago has been hit with a federal class action lawsuit over a data breach that affected 792,000 patients. The lawsuit also alleges that the hospital waited almost five months to inform individuals their in…

How transition-to-practice challenges have evolved

The pandemic upended healthcare in innumerable ways, and one of the less visible ones is how it affected the transition to practice for clinicians who were in school studying to become the next front-line clinicians. 

Vendor employee who breached Geisinger data gets trial delayed

A former employee of Nuance Communications who was responsible for breaching the records of more than 1.2 million patients at Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger has had their trial pushed back, The Daily Item reported July 12.  

11 health system executives named to telehealth leadership council

The American Telemedicine Association formed a new leadership council featuring 11 health system executives.

How UChicago Medicine created an Epic application

UChicago Medicine recently created an application in Epic that will be rolled out across the EHR.

Why Cedars-Sinai is backing a $350M AI startup

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai is backing an artificial intelligence startup that scans EHR data to arm providers with clinical insights and potential diagnoses.

Sizable med school donations may affect specialty decisions

Sizable donations to medical schools that enable universities to waive tuition fees may widen the aperture of students’ specialty considerations, given they will not have hundreds of thousands of dollars in loan debt as a factor in their decisions.&nbs…

New York hospital's patient data exposed in vendor breach

Staten Island (N.Y.) University Hospital reported some patients’ information was breached during Medibase’s data security incident.

Lawmakers press VA hospital over series of safety issues

Lawmakers are pressing VA leadership to elaborate on the patient safety issues at Aurora, Colo.-based Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center that have stopped surgeries at the facility, The Denver Post reported July 9.