Four of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to 2018 ONC data.

Taiwan's digital health infrastructure and central EHR system has played a big part in the country's successful COVID-19 response, serving as a model for the U.S. to potentially replicate in the future, according to a June 30 STAT op-ed.

Cerner has had a busy month, announcing several new partnerships, deals and staffing changes.

The University of Southern California and Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania have filmed a 360-degree virtual reality video that demonstrates COVID-19 treatment practices to prepare medical staff in remote locations for surge responses, The Daily Pennsylvanian reports. 

Florida will begin publishing hospitalization numbers for all counties this week, according to the Miami Herald.

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare has partnered with several health IT organizations to develop a nationwide patient identification strategy.

Cleveland-based University Hospitals partnered with NASA to create technologies and methods to decontaminate personal protective equipment for aerospace applications and COVID-19 front-line workers.

Ransomware gang Netwalker attacked the University of California San Francisco medical school's computer systems June 1, initially demanding a $3 million ransom, according to BBC News.  

The St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force will no longer combine confirmed admissions and suspected COVID-19 cases after the commission found several of the suspected cases turned out to be negative, according to a local NBC affiliate.

Deanna Wise, senior vice president and CIO of Phoenix-based Banner Health, sees continuing to focus on telehealth and home monitoring technology as well as delivering information about vaccinations faster as the important technologies she'll need in the next six months.

Patients are most interested in using wearable devices to share their cardiovascular and sleep data with providers and insurers, according to a recent Forrester Research report.

Here are the changes in hospital and health system CIOs Becker's Hospital Review has reported during the first half of this year.

From increasing comfort levels to limiting spread of COVID-19 infections, hospitals and health systems are exploring ways to bring hospital-level care to patients directly from their homes.

Provo, Utah-based Brigham Young University researchers developed a low-cost digital stethoscope that can live stream or record a patient's heartbeat from up to 50 feet away, according to local news affiliate KSTU.

Google Trends tracks the most frequently asked questions about the coronavirus for the past year, updating information daily.

St. Augustine, Fla.-based Flagler Health+ is integrating a new technology platform to help bring employees back to work safely, according to a report from The St. Augustine Record.

Google Cloud launched its healthcare API in April and has big plans for the future, according to Joe Corkery, director of product management, healthcare and life sciences at Google Cloud.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic on June 30 announced a new collaboration with Diagnostic Robotics to implement its artificial intelligence platform that predicts patients' hospitalization risk and triages them to appropriate care. 

An employee of a Houston area health clinic responded to a phishing email that allowed unauthorized access to thousands of patients' information in the email account, the health system running the clinic said.

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Microsoft and Adobe launched a new digital offering for personalized healthcare and shopping.