The pandemic has catalyzed significant changes in the healthcare industry, particularly on the technology front as patients, payers and providers look for ever-newer ways of delivering, receiving and being reimbursed for care.
Such incidents helped make 2021 a record year for data breaches. Data exposure events, in which sensitive data is left sitting online, were responsible for cybersecurity incidents involving an estimated 164 million of the 294 million people victimized in 2021.
Months before anyone at Cerner Corp. ever heard from Oracle about a possible acquisition, the Kansas City healthcare IT firm rebuffed a separate takeover attempt
IBM is selling its Watson Health data and analytics business, the final step in the company’s retreat from what it once called a “moonshot” venture to improve health care, helping save lives and trim medical costs.