Google committed more than $8.5 million to 31 organizations to further artificial intelligence and data analytics efforts focused on understanding the spread of COVID-19 as well as the impact on healthcare workers and vulnerable communities.

The Nevada Hospital Association accidentally published detailed COVID-19 information about several hospitals' intensive care unit capacities, staffing and supplies to its website Sept. 3, according to CBS affiliate KLAS' investigative team. 

Artificial intelligence has great potential to transform healthcare for the better, including reducing workflow inefficiencies, predicting future health outcomes and speeding up diagnoses.

Over the past few months, Epic has inked partnerships to improve interoperability and information exchange between providers and continued work on new artificial intelligence technologies.

COVID-19 data reporting has been a challenge for hospitals and health systems, especially as state and federal governments change reporting requirements and experience glitches when updating their systems.

Amazon named Maulik Majmudar, MD, its medical officer in August 2018 and he recently oversaw the team that developed Amazon Halo, the company's first wearables health tracker.

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock received a multimillion-dollar grant to establish a national research center that will examine digital health in rural areas, according to a report from Paragould Daily Press.

Google.org awarded $500,000 to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to analyze how COVID-19 modifies gene expression in some people in ways that may cause severe illness and death.

New Medicare Advantage plan benefits and increased tech adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic will help support older adults aging in place, but there's still a range of opportunities where digital health can help improve healthcare for older adults.

Stanford (Calif.) University researchers are analyzing and testing artificial intelligence-powered systems that give off alerts in "smart" hospitals to help clinicians better monitor and treat patients while decreasing fatal medical errors.