Steve Scibetta, Vice President and General Manager at Ontario Systems, recommends three automation technologies that are revolutionizing RCM. 

Three health systems and their spinouts have developed tools to help track, diagnose and accelerate treatment for the coronavirus.

When facing a rapidly growing and changing global crisis like the coronavirus pandemic, an organization's first instinct may be to batten down the hatches and go silent while riding out the uncertainty.

Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers developed a mobile application that follows users' movements and alerts them if they have come into contact or near an individual who has self-reported testing positive for COVID-19, according to MIT Technology Review. 

An Amazon warehouse in New York City closed after an employee tested positive for COVID-19, according to Bloomberg.

Five Democratic senators are asking Google and Vice President Mike Pence for more information on its recently launched coronavirus website, according to CNBC.

Two leading cybercriminal groups have said they will stop targeting healthcare organizations as the coronavirus outbreak spreads, according to Forbes.

The last global pandemic was in 2009, when there was an outbreak of H1N1, known as the swine flu, which infected 60.8 million and caused 12,469 deaths in the U.S. Back then there was panic around the best treatment and prevention options and much of the information was input manually. 

The strategic use of robotic surgery service lines has the potential to help hospitals achieve lower costs while also improving clinical outcomes, patient experience and provider satisfaction.

The COVID-19 outbreak will affect the big technology companies, including Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, in many ways.

Sentara Norfolk (Va.) General Hospital, part of Sentara Healthcare, developed an automated program within its EHR to screen newborns for inherited diseases, Inside Business reports.

When a hospital in northern Italy began to run low on replacement valves for an intensive care device that provides respiratory support to COVID-19 patients, the Brescia-based medical center tapped a 3D printing company to replicate and create the devices, according to 3D Printing Media Network.

As the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the U.S., CMS is evaluating the timeline for its final interoperability rule that was released earlier this month.

Physicians from hospitals across the country have received text messages with false information about the coronavirus and the government’s response plans, according to ABC News.

Government officials are exploring the possibility of using tracking and surveillance technology to combat the rapid spreading coronavirus, according to The Wall Street Journal.

MobileSmith Health (OTCBB: MOST), a leader in the digital health and mobile development sector that is reshaping traditional healthcare, today announced the launch of two COVID Response Mobile Apps to support hospitals in their response to the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic.

With the coronavirus pandemic now spreading across all 50 states at a rapid rate, telehealth and data-tracking technologies have come to the forefront as crucial tools to slow the spread of the virus and treat infected patients.

Due to disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Department of Justice notified companies finalizing mergers that federal reviews of the purchases may be delayed, Bloomberg reports.

Facebook announced on March 17 two new initiatives to provide financial support to its employees and to small businesses around the world in an effort to mitigate some of the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Patient engagement software startup Gyant began rolling out on March 17 a new virtual clinical assistant to aid healthcare providers as they offer patients COVID-19 screening for and education about the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.