While each day society and the healthcare industry wrestle with the consequences wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, many hospital and health system leaders are also looking to future and drawing up plans to bring about lasting and necessary change in…

The percentage of physicians using telehealth to see patients spiked from 22 percent in 2019 to 80 percent this year, according to Amwell's 2020 Physician and Consumer Survey.  

Public health officials in the United Kingdom reported missing thousands of COVID-19 test results because Microsoft Excel files containing the information were too large to transfer into its central computer system, according to The New York Times.

At Cleveland Clinic, William Morris, MD, and Susan Bernat have been part of the team leading the development and commercialization arm of the academic medical center.

The Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance is building on its partnership with Amazon Web Services to develop new machine learning models for earlier breast cancer and depression detection, according to an Oct. 6 news release. 

Medical scribes can help physicians treat more patients and schedule more return visits, which can offset the initial costs of employing a scribe in about a year or less, according to University of Chicago researchers. 

Rolla, Mo.-based Phelps Health went live with Epic EHR across its 242-bed health system.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente partnered with Best Buy Health to develop remote monitoring tools for older adults.

Philadelphia-based eResearch Technology, a company that sell software used in clinical trials, was the victim of a ransomware attack, according to The New York Times.

Banner Health is partnering with Everbridge to develop a digital wayfinding app that will help patients navigate the Phoenix-based health system, according to an Oct. 5 news release.