Morning Headlines 4/29/25

Ascension reports patient data security incident affecting care sites in five states 

Ascension announces that patient data from care sites in five states was likely stolen in a December cybersecurity incident involving an unnamed business partner.

CareCloud Launches Healthcare AI Center Set to Become World’s Largest with 500 AI Professionals

Ambulatory health IT vendor CareCloud launches a domestic and off-shore AI Center of Excellence to further integrate AI across its technologies and processes.

Oracle engineers caused days-long software outage at US hospitals

Community Health Systems (TN) restores computer systems at a reported 45 hospitals after several days of downtime caused by an Oracle Health engineer who mistakenly deleted critical storage during routine maintenance.

LifeMD Acquires Women’s Health Provider Optimal Human Health MD to Accelerate Entry into the Women’s Health Market

Virtual primary care company LifeMD will use newly acquired assets from Optimal Human Health MD to launch women’s healthcare services this summer.