Apple has been emerging into the healthcare sector from tech developments to collaborating on medical research studies.

Vesta Healthcare, a digital health and clinical provider group platform, on April 6 closed a $65 million fundraising round.

Healthcare organizations and local governments across the country are launching ad campaigns to reach vaccine-hesitant Americans, as the U.S. could reach a point when it has more COVID-19 vaccine doses than willing recipients as early as the end of April.

UPMC and Advocate Aurora Health are the two latest health systems to join Moving Health Home, a new healthcare coalition founded by Amazon Care, Intermountain and Ascension.

New York City-based Columbia University researchers are using artificial intelligence technologies to analyze the language used by different groups of people in the U.S. who are vaccine reluctant, according to an April 8 Columbia News report.

Lack of awareness and the digital divide have been noted as leading factors that keep patients from reviewing their clinical notes, according to an April 7 Journal of the American Medical Association article.

The widespread COVID-19 infection rates, genetic diversity and high number of people vaccinated against COVID-19 makes the U.S. an ideal place to study the genetic evolution of the novel coronavirus. However, experts with firsthand genomic sequencing experience during the pandemic told MIT Technology Review the country's legal and infrastructural obstacles make it almost impossible to turn genomic surveillance data on coronavirus variants into insightful takeaways.

An Ohio law firm that specializes in healthcare was the target of a ransomware attack that affected 420,532 individuals.

Black patients are more likely than white patients to find language in their clinician notes that indicates they are not believed by their physicians, according to a recent Johns Hopkins University study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. 

Citing privacy concerns, the University of Cincinnati recently walked back its plan to share students' private information with UCHealth to expedite the COVID-19 vaccination process, Fox 19 News reports. 

As the healthcare industry continues to see spikes in data breaches, password security plays a large role in the fight to curb it.

Firefly Health, a Boston-based primary care startup, recently raised $40 million in a series B funding round to establish a new health plan benefit for employers, according to an April 7 news release.

Indianapolis-based insurer Anthem inked a new partnership with Canvas, an EHR and practice management platform, according to an April 8 news release.

Building out a schedule for appointments at infusion centers is a coordinated effort that must consider various factors, from peak visit times to supply and capacity demands.

Most artificial intelligence-powered medical devices approved by the FDA have not been comprehensively studied to determine the fairness and accuracy of their algorithms, according to a study published April 5 in Nature.

Epic and Group Health Cooperative have teamed up to open a drive-thru vaccine clinic in Madison, Wis., this week, according to an April 7 article published by WKOW-27.

There are 586,869 patients confirmed to be affected by a data breach at Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health, according to HHS' data breach portal.

Counterfeit and stolen vaccine cards have been popping up on online retailer sites like Etsy, Facebook and eBay, according to an April 8 article published by The New York Times.

University of Southern California, Yale University and University of Michigan have signed onto a COVID-19 messaging campaign spearheaded by Cultique, an advisor on cultural issues to the entertainment industry, CNBC reports.

More than 100,000 Americans have gotten their COVID-19 vaccinations, and along with the shot have received a 4-by-3-inch paper "vaccination record card" for verification, CBS reports.