With the convenience it offers to patients and the potential to decrease overhead costs for providers, telehealth is set to maintain a larger position in the U.S. healthcare system even after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, according to an October report…

Here are 13 updates on Epic's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in October. 

Intuitive, a company focused on robotic-assisted surgical technology, launched a venture capital fund Oct. 27 to invest in digital health companies.

The Florida health department stopped reporting the overall COVID-19 positivity rate and total number of tests administered, numbers it has posted since March, according to The Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Over the past three months, Meditech has forged EHR-based partnerships with several healthcare providers as well as the American Health Information Management Association.

Over the past three months, Allscripts has inked partnerships with several healthcare providers to develop health IT software and sold off some of its own businesses in multimillion and a billion-dollar deal. 

Cleveland is the city with the highest rates of interoperability among hospitals in the U.S., according to a recent analysis by ONC.

Telehealth adoption has accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic as hospitals and health systems increase their virtual care programs and technologies to stay connected to patients.

Though the early months of the pandemic did not bode well for new tech-focused partnerships, Cerner has pursued several acquisitions and partnerships to improve its products and services in the past year.

The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of some digital health tools, but there are still significant obstacles preventing widespread use of these tools in the healthcare industry.