After raising more than $740 million in its initial public offering in September, Amwell filed paperwork Jan. 12 with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a public offering of 11.3 million shares.

Massachusetts is the state with the highest healthcare cost per smoker per year, according to an analysis by personal finance website WalletHub.

"Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve" is the mission statement Cleveland Clinic intends to use for the next 100 years, CEO and President Tom Mihaljevic, MD, said Jan. 13.

Health officials are investigating the death of a Florida physician 16 days after he received the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, reports The New York Times. 

Our Chief Nursing Officer Lisa Romano shares her personal ordeal battling COVID-19 head on, both as a nurse and a patient. This article originally appeared in Barron’s.

Cigna said it will end political donations to lawmakers who "encouraged or supported violence" after rioters supporting President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol Jan. 6, according to CNBC.

The CipherHealth platform supports patient engagement through the entire continuum of care to deliver superior operational efficiency, improved outcomes, and bottom-line growth

Michael Bergmann, RN, was named president of Ascension Wisconsin's Fox Valley hospitals, effective Jan. 25, according to a news release.

The Google News Initiative has launched a $3 million fund to bolster journalistic projects combating misinformation about COVID-19 vaccination efforts, Google said.

In 2020, there were seven hospital and health system mergers involving two companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenue, according to an analysis by consulting firm Kaufman Hall. This compares to three megamergers announced in 2019. 

Hospitals and health systems in Utah declared systemic racism a public health crisis Jan. 12 and pledged to work together to address health inequities and disparities, The Salt Lake City Tribune reported.

The following health systems have opened hospitals, advanced proposals to build them or announced plans for them in the last month:

Moncef Slaoui, PhD, chief advisor of Operation Warp Speed, submitted his resignation at the request of President-elect Joe Biden's team, although he'll stay on for another month to oversee the transition to the new administration, CNBC reported Jan. 12. 

South Country Health Alliance, a county-owned health plan based in Owatonna, Minn., has notified members that their personal information was exposed during a  phishing attack on an employee email account last June.

Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health more than tripled the capacity of its computer server last weekend after a high volume of users flooded its patient portal to sign up for COVID-19 vaccines Jan. 8 and crashed the website. 

Tenet Healthcare, a 65-hospital system based in Dallas, plans to acquire 25 to 40 ambulatory surgery centers this year, according to the company's presentation Jan. 12 at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. 

Columbus-based Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and OSU College of Medicine researchers have discovered a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a Jan. 13 news release. 

Sellers on the dark web are advertising COVID-19 vaccines for the price of hundreds and thousands of dollars in bitcoin but failing to deliver the product, according to a Jan. 13 CNBC report. 

Rates of pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations rose by 760 percent in 22 states last year from May to November, according to a study published Jan. 11 in JAMA Pediatrics.

HHS on Jan. 12 asked hospitals to begin reporting how many healthcare workers and patients they have administered COVID-19 vaccines to, according to The Wall Street Journal.