Lyft and Uber are in talks with the incoming Biden administration as the rideshare companies look to ramp up services for individuals in need of transportation to get COVID-19 vaccinated, according to a Jan. 12 Wall Street Journal report.

Dallas-based Parkland Health & Hospital System has tapped Orasi, a Kennesaw, Ga.-based  software development company, to help virtually provide medical technology training for its thousands of hospital employees during the pandemic, Orasi said.

A student at the Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina used an artificial intelligence model this past spring to find thousands of adults at high risk of serious complications if they contracted COVID-19, reported The Post and Courier.

MedStar St. Mary's Hospital will go live on Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health's EHR system Jan. 13. 

Athenahealth and Louisville, Ky.-based health insurer Humana inked a multiyear agreement to combine the Watertown, Mass.-based EHR vendor's software with health plan data, according to a Jan. 12 news release. 

Big tech companies launched several partnerships last year with providers of healthcare-specific products.

A phishing attack on the employee email account of a worker for Port Townsend, Wash.-based Jefferson Healthcare may have exposed the personal information of thousands of patients late last year, according to a statement from the health system.

Missouri's Jefferson County Health Department has not received the flu data it needs for its state reporting system since November, according to a Jan. 10 Leader report.

Apple and Cambridge, Mass.-based neurological therapies company Biogen will research how the Apple Watch and iPhone could help monitor cognitive health, Biogen said.

The Indiana Department of Health partnered with Zotec Partners to deploy a statewide COVID-19 vaccine information management system, the healthcare revenue cycle management company announced Jan. 11.

The Department of Veterans Affairs launched a new initiative with Fitbit Jan. 11 to provide 10,000 veterans, caregivers and VA staff with free memberships to Fitbit's digital health services.

Leon Medical Centers was hit by a malware attack in November that exposed patients' protected health information, the Doral, Fla.-based hospital announced Jan. 8.

Dozens of therapeutics based on the mRNA technology used to make the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines could emerge over the next 10 years, Moderna co-founder Derrick Rossi, PhD, told WBUR, an NPR affiliate.

Google sister company Verily inked an agreement with Microsoft to run its biomedical research platform on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. 

Technical issues with California's COVID-19 vaccine sign-up software are hindering people's ability to sign up for and receive customer service guidance for vaccines, Los Angeles Times reports. 

LSU Health Care Services Division began notifying patients Jan. 8 that a September cyberattack extended beyond the Baton Rouge, La.-based health system and also affected its partner hospital, University Medical Center-New Orleans. 

Centennial, Colo.-based Centura Health failed to report almost 2,500 COVID-19 hospitalizations dating back to last April because of a system coding issue, according to a Jan. 8 The Journal report. 

Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health has partnered with Geisinger in Danville, Pa., on a system to discreetly alert security when staff may be in danger.

Google recently posted several job openings related to its health business.

Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health's online patient portal crashed Jan. 8 after a high volume of patients flooded the website to sign up for COVID-19 vaccines, Detroit Free Press reports.