As chief innovation officer of Boston Children's Hospital, John Brownstein, PhD, became involved in health IT after following his interests in big data and its crossover with population health.

If telehealth is going to provide value to the healthcare system, it must address issues such as health equity and disparities in healthcare while delivering safe and high-quality care, according to Shantanu Agrawal, MD, and Tejal Gandhi, MD.

Pennsylvania released an app Sept. 22 that uses Bluetooth technology to let users know if they've been exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19.

HHS' ONC on Sept. 23 named four recipients of more than $2.7 million in grants under its Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health IT funding opportunity.

Health systems may experience financial gains by implementing clinical decision support tools in their EHR systems, according to a recent study published in the US National Library of Medicine.

Hennepin Healthcare terminated five employees in July for inappropriately viewing the medical records of "a high profile patient" after George Floyd was taken to the Minneapolis-based hospital in May after dying in police custody, according to a Sept. 23 Star…

Researchers at New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System developed a COVID-19 mortality predictive model that can accurately and cost-effectively aid clinical staff in assessing COVID-19 patients' risk of death, according to a study published in the October 2020 issue…

The U.S. Defense Department and Philips are expanding their joint research of an artificial intelligence-based system that can identify signs of infectious disease before symptoms begin. 

Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff, Neb., had a computer network interruption on Sept. 22, according to the Star Herald.

The Washington health department released new COVID-19 data on Sept. 21, but then rolled back the data due to errors discovered after the initial posting, according to notes on the department's dashboard.