New York City has deployed a COVID-19 portal designed to track the spread of the virus across the city, according to City & State New York.

Verizon has provided connectivity to U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort, according to a March 30 news release.

When HHS relaxed HIPAA penalties against hospitals and health systems, the department also granted providers the opportunity to communicate with patients and provide telehealth services through nonpublic-facing remote communication services.

When it comes to collecting and managing COVID-19 patient data, Beaumont Health relies on its EHR as its "only source of truth," according to CIO Hans Keil.

Allscripts has provided telehealth services to more than 100 healthcare clients through its patient engagement platform in the past month, according to a March 30 news release.

A rapidly increasing number of COVID-19 cases has affected various aspects of the healthcare industry, from hospitals canceling elective procedures to shaking up plans for EHR go-lives and optimizations.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the nation's healthcare system and shed light on hospital capacity issues. Many health systems have turned to telemedicine tools to stem the tide of patients and mitigate the pressure on emergency departments and other resources. 

Seattle-based University of Washington created a digital tool that predicts the COVID-19 peak of hospital resources and deaths for the next four months in each state.

England's National Health Service is teaming up with Google, Microsoft and other tech firms to develop a dashboard to track the spread of COVID-19.

Merced, Calif.-based Golden Valley Health Centers began notifying 37,900 patients March 9 that their protected health information may have been exposed in a phishing attack.

The Office for Civil Rights of HHS to is reminding hospitals and health systems of their legal obligation not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, age, sex and exercise of conscience and religion.

Memorial Healthcare Systems in Hollywood, Fla., is partnering with CDW and Cisco to develop an application that informs individuals who test negative for the coronavirus of their results, which will give healthcare providers more time to focus on treating patients who test positive.

The Trump administration is requesting data on COVID-19 testing from hospitals across the nation as well as information on bed capacity and supplies.

The White House and CDC teamed up with tech giant Apple to develop a new website and app that offers up-to-date information on the coronavirus pandemic and a screening tool for COVID-19 symptoms, according to a March 27 news release.

Google sister company Verily has nearly 1,000 volunteers working on its COVID-19 screening and testing platform as it prepares to expand to more locations, according to CNBC. 

Airbnb announced March 26 that it will house 100,000 healthcare providers, relief workers and first responders around the world free of cost.

As soon as the care team at Renton, Wash.-based Providence realized they had their first case of COVID-19 in late January, the IT team sprang into action to update their Epic EHR with tools to support identifying and treating future patients with the coronavirus.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that around 40,000 people answered his call to support healthcare workers in the state during the coronavirus pandemic, including 2,265 physicians and 2,409 nurses.

Hospitals and health systems across the country are focused on their response to the coronavirus pandemic. In hot spots like Seattle or New York City, hospital CEOs are already in the midst of responding to the crisis; in other communities, executives are developing protocol to prepare for more cases.

The World Health Organization director general and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos discussed how the two could work to control the spread of COVID-19 during a recent video conference, Yahoo Finance reports.