The Digital Medicine Society — a professional society for the digital health field that refers to itself as DiMe — on Oct. 20 launched a collaborative initiative focused on integrating sensor-generated data into patient care and clinical research.

The Biden administration plans to move the federal public health data tracking system back to the CDC following the Trump administration's shift in July 2020, Bloomberg reported Oct. 14. 

The Missouri Hospital Association launched a data dashboard Oct. 11 that displays details of health inequities by zip code, symptom and prevalence, according to details shared with Becker's.

The CDC has selected PointClickCare, a healthcare cloud company, to provide data sets to give insights that help researchers learn more about COVID-19.

While most people think glycemic management is only a concern for people living with diabetes, in the inpatient setting there’s a lot more nuance: over one third of hospitalized patients experience hyperglycemia, and CMS recently announced two new quality metrics that highlight the need to better manage these patients’ blood glucose during their hospital stay, and also underscores the risks of not taking action.

Artificial intelligence-powered predictive analytics tools can improve hospital operations by optimizing capacity demands, alerting care teams of patients who may be at risk for adverse events and anticipating supply shortages, among other uses.

Perhaps no other event in modern history has tested the nation's healthcare system like the COVID-19 pandemic.

The University of California-Irvine and health IT startup Syntropy have unveiled a five-year partnership to use data to innovate UCI Health Affairs, health research, and how hospitals integrate and contextualize data.

Palantir Technologies, the data analytics company that powers the National Institute of Health's COVID-19 data-reporting platform, has been awarded $150 million in two federal health contracts to streamline data integration.

The CDC has selected HealthVerity to develop an interoperable dataset for COVID-19 research that will be used in research, decision-making and public health objectives.

The National Institutes of Health's All of Us precision medicine research program uploaded medical data from about 215,000 participants.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has developed an approach using clinical databases to improve surgical outcomes that can be applied at other hospitals, according to a Sept. 30 Harvard Business Review report.

Truveta, a de-identified data platform founded by 14 health systems, is partnering with Microsoft to scale the platform globally and help it reach new clients.

Google and Cue Health, Google's COVID-19 test provider, are planning to create an advanced respiratory biothreat-detection system, according to a Sept. 24 CNBC report.

Global demand for ivermectin has highlighted flaws in using non-transparent data to guide patient treatment, according to a Sept. 22 report published in Nature Medicine.

Cerner, Epic and Health Catalyst are among some of the most frequently adopted vendors hospitals and health systems have tapped for data analytics support, according to a recent KLAS Research report. 

HHS has awarded a total of $100,000 to six winners of its synthetic health data challenge on Sept. 21.

The National Institutes of Health is examining the removal of COVID-19 virus genetic data from its archive after a scientist in June raised concerns about the withdrawal, The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 13. 

Digital patient engagement has long been discussed in healthcare, but it took the COVID-19 pandemic to really drive the broad implementation of solutions.

More than 20 states are still struggling to fill key gaps in COVID-19 case and hospitalization data reporting as the delta variant surges across the country, Politico reported Sept. 2.