A new artificial intelligence consortium will offer nearly $6 million in funding and resources for researchers using AI and data analytics to address and slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

Shaker Heights, Ohio-based University Hospitals is piloting a new app designed to monitor COVID-19 patients and other high-risk patients, according to cleveland.com.

City officials in St. Augustine, Fla., will distribute hundreds of app-connected thermometers to residents to improve coronavirus tracking in the region, ABC News reports.

UC San Diego Health researchers have built several COVID-19-specific tools within its Epic EHR to support care management during the pandemic, according to a March 24 study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 

The coronavirus outbreak is accelerating trends toward telehealth and virtual visits, placing a premium on access to care and care coordination.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office has issued a call for highly skilled technologists to join with the state, Microsoft, Google Cloud and more to develop IT solutions to assist with New York's COVID-19 response.

The American Hospital Association is asking for clarification on the HIPAA waiver released by the Trump administration on March 17 in a letter to HHS.

Approximately 400 volunteers have joined forces to combat the surge in coronavirus-related cyberattacks targeting healthcare organizations, according to Cybersecurity Insider.

Paul Black, CEO of Allscripts, has spent his career in the health IT space focused on the big disruptors in healthcare and supporting better care delivery.

The World Health Organization is teaming up with tech giants including Microsoft and Facebook to create software that addresses challenges related to the coronavirus pandemic, CNBC reports.

Renton, Wash.-based Providence began treating patients with the coronavirus in January and quickly built an infrastructure around treating patients affected by the pandemic.

As COVID-19 continues to spread across the country, the U.S. will need to immediately solve three key issues to avoid a massive ventilator shortage: ventilator production, distribution and operation, according to Daniel Horn, MD. 

The World Health Organization has seen an influx of unsuccessful hacking attempts, the agency’s information security chief told The Wall Street Journal.

Hospitals may share a limited amount of protected health information about patients who have been diagnosed or exposed to COVID-19 with law enforcement, paramedics and other first responders, according to new guidelines released March 24 by the Office for Civil Rights.

A diagnostic tool for rapid COVID-19 testing developed by Hackensack (N.J.) Meridian Health's Center for Discovery and Innovation will now be available to other health systems through a licensing agreement announced March 24.

While chief data officers are undeniably the leaders of data-focused initiatives at their organizations — especially essential amid the rapidly evolving coronavirus pandemic — they must team up with their CEOs to champion a data-driven culture, the Harvard Business Review suggests.

A week after launching a COVID-19 testing program in two counties in the San Francisco Bay region, Google sister company Verily has expanded the program and ironed out some of its initial issues, the life sciences company announced March 23.

As Congress argues the coronavirus relief package, they should prioritize the privacy and security of patient data, a coalition of civil-society groups argues, according to Politico’s March 23 Morning eHealth newsletter.

Tens of thousands of physicians are using social media to develop and find answers regarding COVID-19 in real time, according to Bloomberg.

Putting together the "Innovationeering" series has made me refresh — and occasionally reconstruct — my legacy thinking about the practice of innovation. What has also emerged is the reminder that one of the key characteristics of innovators and the systems they lead is that they must be nimble.