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.

Honolulu-based Hawaii Pacific Health has fired an employee after discovering the employee had inappropriately accessed patient medical records.

Boston Children’s Hospital Chief Innovation Officer and epidemiologist John Brownstein, MD, collaborated with volunteers to develop a coronavirus tracking website, according to CNBC.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, innovation leaders at hospitals and health systems across the U.S. have been forced to reevaluate their existing strategies and reframe ongoing IT projects to assist with COVID-19 triage and treatment.

Researchers developing cures and vaccines can now apply for access to some of the world's fastest computers to accelerate their work, courtesy of the White House's newly announced COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium.

As hospitals and health systems around the U.S. face the looming threat of medical equipment shortages during the coronavirus pandemic, 3D printing is emerging as a potential solution for the issue, CNBC reports.

Tom Andriola, vice chancellor of information technology and data at UC Irvine (Calif.), sees planning for the expanded services during the coronavirus pandemic as one of the top priorities for his IT team in the foreseeable future.

The Trump administration released a list of “essential employees” for various industries in its Coronavirus Guidance for America, which includes hospital IT staff.

As organizations take their workforces remote, the number of phishing scams and spam have spiked, according to CNBC.

The CDC launched its "Coronavirus Self-Checker" on March 20 to guide Americans who may have COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, to appropriate medical care.

Though many healthcare organizations have recently launched artificial intelligence chatbots to take on some of the burden of triaging potential COVID-19 cases, those chatbots are producing vastly different findings, Stat reports.

After deploying its new EHR on March 3, United Community & Family Services is now redirecting its full focus from optimizing the Epic system to its response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Device manufacturer Tandem Diabetes Care began alerting 140,781 patients that their personal information may have been exposed in a phishing attack.

Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health began notifying an undisclosed number of patients March 20 of a phishing scheme and subsequent malware attack.

A fraudulent website has popped up tricking consumers into purchasing a phony COVID-19 vaccine, according to CBS DFW.

The coronavirus pandemic has shifted the focus of all hospital and health system personnel, whether they're caregivers, supply chain managers or on the IT team.

Here are seven digital alerts and tools that hospitals and health systems have recently developed or integrated with their EHR systems.

Here are five recent health information technology vendor contracts and go-lives affecting healthcare organizations.

Becker's Hospital Review reported the following health IT executive moves recently affecting hospitals, companies and federal agencies.

The World Health Organization launched a messaging service with Facebook-owned WhatsApp on March 20 allowing the app's billions of users to directly message the global health organization for news and information about COVID-19.