The acceleration of virtual care driven by the COVID-19 pandemic may save digital health from a two-year adoption decline among consumers, according to a recent Accenture report.

Behavioral health provider Magellan teamed up with Livongo, a digital health company in the process of being acquired by Teladoc, to improve access to behavioral health.

Columbus-based Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center partnered with technology-powered primary care organization One Medical as part of the system's digital transformation.

The National Institutes of Health recently awarded digital health company Vibrent Health $39 million to build the tech backbone of its All of Us precision medicine research program.

Meditech teamed up with artificial intelligence developer Nuance to launch a voice assistant for clinicians using its Expanse EHR system, according to a Sept. 9 news release.

Walgreens Center for Health & Wellbeing Research, launched in 2017, employs more than 25 healthcare researchers, data scientists, clinicians, statisticians, actuaries and business partners to measure the effectiveness of its programs.

Janssen, Johnson & Johnson's pharmaceutical arm, launched a nine-month digital health startup accelerator focusing on predictive diagnostic models and treatment management devices.

Amwell on Sept. 8 filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for its proposed initial public offering, which it priced between $490 million and $560 million. 

The widow of a former lung cancer patient at HealthAlliance Hospital is suing the Kingston, N.Y.-based hospital and its EHR vendor, Ciox Health, for allegedly withholding her deceased husband's medical records, according to the Times Herald-Record. 

Watertown, N.Y.-based Samaritan Health is still recovering from a malware attack that occurred on July 25, and not all of its systems have returned to normal operations.