The FBI is investigating a state data breach in South Dakota that may have exposed information about people who tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Rapid City Journal.

The University of Kentucky inadvertently made personal information, including COVID-19 test results, of hundreds of students and employees accessible to people in the university's network, according to a report from the Lexington Herald Leader.

A group of 14 Democratic senators penned a letter to FCC chairman Ajit Pai on Aug. 20 detailing what they say is the agency's failure to manage the Rural Health Care Program and COVID-19 Telehealth Program. 

More than two dozen boxes of medical records containing patients' personal health information were discovered outside of Odessa (Texas) Recycling Center, according to an Aug. 20 KOSA report. 

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Joy Burt’s team at Akron Children’s Hospital was primarily focused on patient rounding, with some emphasis on staff rounding.

New York-based United Health Services is transitioning to Epic, according to a report from the Press & Sun-Bulletin, a local New York publication.

HHS linked COVID-19 funding for hospitals to reporting their data through the TeleTracking Technologies portal, according to the New York Times.

The ability to work remotely during the early days of the pandemic had clear advantages for health system administrative and IT teams.

Businesses of all sizes and from every industry have come to understand the benefits of embracing a cloud approach to computing, from immediate access to massive computing power to IT infrastructure costs that scale in alignment with business activity.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced Aug. 21 that the state's emergency broadband fund will receive $61 million in grants to improve internet access for telemedicine, telework and distance learning across the state.