South Dakota's state COVID-19 dashboard inaccurately reported hospital bed availability, stating some hospitals were at capacity when they weren't for a few hours earlier this week until the error was noticed and fixed, according to a report in the Argus Leader.

The Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense and U.S. Coast Guard linked up their joint health information exchange with CommonWell Health Alliance Oct. 9 to expand their network of providers. 

Transitioning from a reactive to proactive care strategy requires hospitals and health systems to embrace digital transformation and roll out new capabilities that tailor care and communications to individual patient preferences.

Milford (Mass.) Regional Medical Center went live with a new EHR on Oct. 1.

Healthcare providers will have the opportunity to provide feedback on their EHR's interoperability in the future through a 28-question survey.

As the healthcare landscape changes, some of the key qualities and initiatives that community hospitals have been working on for years are now essential for larger organizations as well.

Many Americans check their email multiple times a day, so email campaigns are a common tactic healthcare marketers employ to disseminate messages about their organizations.

Recently published results on the performance of two predictive analytics models developed during New York City's spring COVID-19 wave show the tools have potential to help address the winter's anticipated wave of cases, but still need fine-tuning to estimate a patient's complete trajectory.

The Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services named Andrew Rosenberg, MD, CIO of Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine, to its board of directors, effective Oct. 20. 

Epic will use InterSystems' data platform starting with the August 2020 release of its EHR to increase clinicians' access to larger datasets and information for patient care, according to an Oct. 13 news release. 

Tech leaders are calling for more representation on corporate boards as positions such as the CIO are integral to pushing digital strategies in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an Oct. 12 Wall Street Journal report. 

A Florida legislator warned his colleagues against using the state's COVID-19 death rate data to make public policy decisions after an analysis found compromised data and an inflated death rate, according to a Fox 35 Orlando report.

IBM Watson launched a digital health pass app to help individuals verify their health status as they return to work, school or air travel amid the pandemic, the company announced Oct. 12 during the HLTH VRTL 2020 conference.

Allscripts has formed an agreement to sell its care coordination company CarePort Health to WellSky for $1.35 billion, according to an Oct. 13 news release. 

Ashtabula (Ohio) County Medical Center reopened its inpatient hospital unit Oct. 13, three weeks after a cyberattack that forced its computer system offline, according to a report from the Star Beacon.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner,D-Va., sent a letter to King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services filled with questions about a recent cyberattack that threatened operations at the health system's 400 locations.

As Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's first chief digital officer and health of technology, Claus Torp Jensen, PhD, oversees the New York City-based organization's digital transformation and data strategies.

Facebook launched a new global policy Oct. 13 that prohibits ads that discourage people from getting vaccinated for the seasonal flu, COVID-19 and other diseases.

The IT departments at hospitals and health systems are evolving, especially as institutions shuffled strategic priorities during the pandemic.

Contact tracing is an important tool public health leaders and government officials use to understand how COVID-19 is spreading across the country, even though many of these efforts have experienced significant challenges when it comes to issues such as data privacy, interoperability and accuracy.