The Defense Health Agency and Department of Defense Innovation Unit are working to train artificial intelligence tech to identify cancers and other medical irregularities in medical images, according to an Aug. 24 DOD news post.

EHR and EMR management systems contain vast deposits of data, often leaving healthcare professionals feeling overwhelmed and unsure of how to manage the information efficiently. However, there are strategies available to help standardize clinical staff's interactions with these systems.

The University of California San Francisco School of Medicine received a $1.5 million grant to establish a new endowment that funds palliative medicine innovation projects, according to an Aug. 25 news release.

Allscripts recently secured five new patents that aim to improve healthcare delivery and innovation, according to an Aug. 25 news release.

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare is moving forward with plans to open a new patient care access center that features a telemedicine-equipped urgent care center, according to an Aug. 24 Hartford Courant report.

Virtual care providers such as Amwell, Teladoc and MDLive are participating in deal activities and pursuing going public in response to widespread telehealth adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an Aug. 25 Wall Street Journal report.

Colleges are caught in between transparency and privacy concerns as they establish COVID-19 data reporting procedures, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The Lincoln Journal Star reported two testing sites in Lincoln, Neb., are experiencing delays in reporting COVID-19 test results.

HHS amended HIPAA guidance to allow hospitals, pharmacies, laboratories and health plans to contact people who have recovered from COVID-19 and provide information about donating convalescent plasma to help treat patients with the coronavirus.

An error caused by the automated case-reporting technology used by a Navicent Health hospital in Georgia resulted in inaccurate COVID-19 reporting, according to a report from WGXA, an ABC affiliate.