Two nurses were named to Time's Most Influential People of 2020 list, including a New York City nurse who treated her hospital's first COVID-19 patient, contracted the disease herself and recovered to return to work.

BestBuy Health on Sept. 24 launched a new flip phone equipped with Amazon Alexa voice assistance and telehealth capabilities that help connect older adults to healthcare services.

CMS accelerated payments to hospitals and other healthcare providers at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to help temporarily relieve financial strain. Hospitals that received the loans are unsure of when they'll need to begin repayment, according to NPR. 

From an urgent care network paying $12.5 million to resolve overbilling allegations to a Florida physician pleading guilty to submitting $20 million in fraudulent claims, here are the nine healthcare billing fraud cases that made headlines in the past month.

Healthcare workers are still seeing critical shortages of N95 masks, and organizations representing millions of providers are asking the federal government for more help, The Washington Post reported. 

The FDA has issued a proposed rule that clarifies when drugmakers are required to update their drug labels to reflect off-label use, STAT reported. 

Google Maps unveiled a new feature on Sept. 23 that displays COVID-19 cases in a user's area.

As chief innovation officer of Boston Children's Hospital, John Brownstein, PhD, became involved in health IT after following his interests in big data and its crossover with population health.

If telehealth is going to provide value to the healthcare system, it must address issues such as health equity and disparities in healthcare while delivering safe and high-quality care, according to Shantanu Agrawal, MD, and Tejal Gandhi, MD.

As the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., hospitals and health systems began rethinking their food service operations to address safety concerns and shifting patient volumes. 

The Healthcare Financial Management Association voluntarily published best strategies to fairly resolve patient medical bills Sept. 17.

UMass Memorial Health Care's acquisition of Harrington HealthCare has moved forward after being pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to MassLive. 

After facing an onslaught of coronavirus cases in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals in New York are now focused on what comes next. With flu season right around the corner and the pandemic raging on, hospitals in the state are trying to take what they learned from the first spike to prepare.

Most Americans don't expect to pay anything out of pocket for a COVID-19 vaccine, according to results from an Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index survey published Sept. 22.

Llano (Texas) County Memorial Hospital is applying for a critical access designation that would allow the rural hospital to reduce its financial vulnerability through increased Medicare reimbursement, according to DailyTrib.com.

The new payment model for radiation oncology practices finalized by CMS does not address many of the community's key concerns, and its implementation should be delayed, according to the American Society for Radiation Oncology.

In the last decade, there has been a marked decrease in awareness among women that heart disease is their leading cause of death, according to a new report.

Swiss pharma giant Novartis recently garnered about $2.1 billion from investors by selling bonds linked to its promises to make its treatments more accessible in lower-income countries, according to STAT.

Several hospitals were damaged by flooding, fire or wind this year. Below are six, as reported by Becker's Hospital Review. 

Pennsylvania released an app Sept. 22 that uses Bluetooth technology to let users know if they've been exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19.