Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner made headlines this year amid its wearables partnership with Amazon and public stance on interoperability.  

Chicago-based Allscripts tapped nine women as executive leaders in 2020. 

Allscripts streamlined its EHR software to allow providers to record and coordinate their COVID-19 vaccine administration data on a single platform.

The American Medical Association sent a letter Dec. 21 to the CEOs of six social media giants, urging them to increase efforts to dispel misinformation and disinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine on their platforms.

Diameter Health, a data optimization company focused on interoperability for healthcare organizations, on Dec. 17 closed an $18 million series B financing round.

CIOs ramped up initiatives this year to prioritize and support employees' mental health and well-being as social distancing and isolation due to the pandemic altered the traditional workplace, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Philips plans to purchase a remote cardiac diagnostics and monitoring technology company for $2.8 billion.

HHS issued new guidance on HIPAA to allow health information exchanges to share protected health information for public health purposes.

Mass General Brigham administrators shut down the Boston-based health system's online signup system for COVID-19 vaccines on Dec. 16 after a massive influx of employees overwhelmed the website causing it to crash, The Boston Globe reports. 

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland has taken possession of two domain names claiming to be the websites of actual biotech companies Moderna and Regeneron but instead were fraudulent websites that allegedly stole users' info for phishing and malware attacks. 

HHS began publishing daily data reports on the COVID-19 outbreak, including previously unpublished information about the virus' spread.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University created a COVID-19 vaccine data dashboard to track the administration of various vaccines across the U.S. by state.

Solarwinds, a major supplier of network security and management software to governments, private industry, and industry titans like FireEye and Microsoft, was found to have been compromised.

New York City-based Mount Sinai caught flak this week after a marketing staffer posted Instagram photos of himself receiving the COVID-19 vaccine before some front-line workers, according to a Politico report.

Seven healthcare organizations that recently posted job listings seeking marketing executives are listed below.

While the frenzy to procure ventilators has subsided, and fatality rates in intensive care have decreased using basic treatments, it is still important to recognize the role of medical equipment in the pandemic response. Ventilators, infusion pumps, and patient monitors provide continue to be critical to the response. In general, imagine where healthcare systems would be without modern infusion pumps, anesthesia machines, MRI machines, x-ray systems, ultrasound machines, and patient monitors. 

Some frontline workers at UCHealth were given wearable body sensors to track their health after receiving their COVID-19 vaccine, the Aurora, Colo.-based health system said Dec. 17.

The World Health Organization and YouTube partnered to roll out an animated PSA video encouraging people to maintain COVID-19 safety protocols throughout the holiday season.

As tumultuous 2020 comes to a close, healthcare marketers are looking forward to next year and determining the best ways to reach patients via strategic digital messaging.

An October newsletter emailed from Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital inadvertently revealed the emails of its 880 recipients, the hospital said.