1. Biden forms special 52-person COVID transition team  Full story

2. RWJBarnabas Health to acquire 554-bed hospital  Full story

3. Direct primary care provider acquires 230 clinics, changes name  Full story

4. Cybercrime: A Troublesome Consequence of a Continuing Pandemic

5. COVID-19 task force absent from spotlight amid worsening pandemic  Full story

6. Tower Health shakes up hospital leadership: 6 things to know  Full story

7. Virginia physician convicted on 52 charges related to billing fraud scheme  Full story

8. Are you prepared to reduce capital spending on equipment cutting operational costs? Click here to learn strategies regarding total cost of ownership.

9. '2020 was truly a baptism by fire': Tampa General CFO reflects on his first year  Full story

10. Orlando Health buys 80 acres for medical campus  Full story

11. Chicago nurses placed on leave after delivering dead flowers to management  Full story 

12. Does your health system know how to cut through the noise to best utilize the mass availability of data at its fingertips? Click here to learn 3 strategies to get the most out of your data.

13. RN pay in 2020: 7 things to know  Full story 

14. 5 states with the highest obesity rates  Full story 

15. Daily COVID-19 stats, state-by-state:

• Test positivity rates
• Hospitalizations
• Where the virus is spreading fastest, slowest
• Death rates

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