Winter storms have caused delays in shipping 6 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, the White House said last week, according to The Hill. 

The informatics community did not accurately predict the major role EHRs would play in the clinician burnout crisis today, according to a study published Feb. 15 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 

Kroger confirmed Feb. 19 that some pharmacy customers may be affected by Accellion's data breach, which they employed for third-party file transfers.

Two-thirds of vaccine clinical trials conducted in the past 10 years have not reported participants' ethnicities, according to research published Feb. 19 in JAMA Network Open.

Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline began a new clinical trial for their protein-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate, the companies announced Feb. 22.

North Carolina regulators rejected Wilmington, N.C.-based New Hanover Regional Medical Center's proposal to build a $210 million hospital, according to the Wilmington Star-News.

Long-term exposure to air pollution, including to levels below current U.S. standards, is associated with thousands of hospitalizations for cardiac and respiratory conditions yearly among people ages 65 and older, according to research published Feb. 22 in Circulation.

Twenty-eight percent of Americans report taking a prescription not covered by their insurance plan, according to survey results published Feb. 19 by prescription discount service GoodRx. 

New York City patients pay 24 percent more than the national average for prescription medications, making it the most expensive city for prescription drugs, according to a list published Feb. 19 by prescription discount service GoodRx. 

Power outages and water issues continue in Texas amid the aftermath of winter storms that hit the Southern U.S. last week. 

President Joe Biden's nominee to lead HHS, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, and his nominee for surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, MD, are set to appear before Senate committees this week. 

There are as many as 10,000 physicians in the U.S. who remain "chronically unmatched" from residency programs despite their medical degrees, according to The New York Times.

With IBM's recent exploration to sell off its health business unit IBM Watson Health, The Wall Street Journal highlighted several issues with AI in healthcare that can hinder tech companies' innovation efforts. 

Harvard Eye Associates and Alicia Surgery Center, both in Laguna Hills, Calif., recently began notifying almost 30,000 patients that their protected health information was exposed in a ransomware attack on their IT vendor. 

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems announced a hospital divestiture plan in late 2017 and has almost completed its sell-off spree. Since 2018, the for-profit hospital operator has sold 40 hospitals., according to a Feb. 18 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commision. 

A woman with chronic obstructive lung disease contracted COVID-19 from a pair of donor lungs and died 61 days after the transplant — the first confirmed donor-to-recipient transmission of COVID-19 in the U.S., according to a case report published Feb. 10 in the American Journal of Transplantation. 

Des Moines (Iowa) University will use $4 million in grant and investment funds to open a new telehealth training center, which will create hundreds of new jobs, according to a Feb. 18 WHO Radio report. 

Growth in compensation for top health insurance executives outpaced their companies' revenue growth from 2019 to 2020, according to a brief from consulting firm BDO.

Janet Woodcock, MD, and Joshua Sharfstein, MD, are President Joe Biden's leading contenders to head the FDA, according to The New York Times.

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