David Vawdrey, chief data and informatics officer at Danville, Pa.-based Geisigner, joined the podcast to talk about how data management and information sharing is changing the healthcare landscape.

Some scientists and officials in the CDC disagree with the data that influenced the agency's recent recommendations that both vaccinated and unvaccinated people should wear masks again indoors in areas with high levels of COVID-19 transmission, The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 3. 

UC San Francisco will house the COVID Tracking Project, a 15-month-long crowdsourced digital archive of daily COVID-19 data compiled by The Atlantic, within the university's permanent library collection, the organizations said July 28. 

Chinese researchers uploaded COVID-19 genetic sequences to a scientific database more than a year after they took them off the National Institutes of Health's database, The New York Times reported July 30. 

Health data company Datavant and health information management company Ciox Health finalized their $7 billion merger agreement, the companies announced July 28. 

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic teamed up with artificial intelligence firm Nference to analyze 1.1 million clinical notes and find the connection between preexisting conditions and the severity of COVID-19 symptoms, according to a July 27 report published in NPJ Digital Medicine.

Cincinnati- based Bon Secours Mercy Health formed a partnership with Trilliant Health, an intelligent predictive analytics and patient acquisition platform, the health system announced July 22. 

The federal government is exploring ways to overhaul its health data reporting systems under a new task force convened by HHS' National Coordinator for Health IT Micky Tripathi, PhD, Politico reported July 21. 

Health outcomes and artificial intelligence technology company OM1 recently raised $85 million to expand its data cloud and clinical registries platform, the company said July 16. 

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Tufts Medical Center conducted a study using artificial intelligence to do a deep dive into EHR notes of patients who tested positive for COVID-19 in a nationwide data lake, according to a July 13 report published in JAMA Network Open.

Two congressmen penned a letter to the National Institutes of Health on July 9 requesting that the agency do a comprehensive review of reports that data on the genetic sequences of early COVID-19 cases was deleted from a public U.S. database, NextGov reported. 

Truveta, a healthcare data analytics startup formed by 14 U.S. health systems, welcomed three new members to the company and closed a $95 million financing round, it announced July 13. 

After making acquisitions, healthcare organizations want to use the same enterprise systems across all facilities, which raises the question about what to do with the legacy systems and data.

Springfield, Ill.-based Memorial Health System is launching an assessment tool to gauge race- and income-based health disparities for hospitals, according to The State Journal-Register.

Fifteen organizations, including Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University, recently were chosen as recipients of COVID-19 data research grants funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 

Boston-based Mass General Brigham has launched a health equity campaign to collect demographic data from its more than 1 million adult primary care patients.

The National Institutes of Health erased gene sequences of early COVID-19 cases from its scientific database last year at the request of a Chinese researcher who submitted the information, according to a June 23 Wall Street Journal report. 

Healthcare organizations continue to search for ways to improve monitoring and treatment of patients managing glycemic issues.

Recognizing a need for centralized health data to answer key questions about COVID-19, the National Institutes of Health extracted siloed data at the beginning of the pandemic to establish a national COVID-19 database. Now, it's one of the largest collections of COVID-19 patient data in the world, MIT Technology Review reported June 21.

Mobile health apps are growing in popularity as a way consumers can be more attuned with their health — yet 88 percent of these apps collect and track users' data, according to a June 17 report published in the British Medical Journal.