Epic told its employees Aug. 12 that they will now be permitted to work from home through at least the end of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a statement emailed to Becker's Hospital Review.

Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner is almost finished with building two new office towers that represent phases three and four of its 16-phase, $4.5 billion Innovations Campus project, according to an Aug. 7 Kansas City Business Journal report. 

After a nine-year stint at Amazon leading the retail giant's self-publishing and print-on-demand business, Aaron Martin returned to the healthcare space in July 2016 as senior vice president and chief digital officer of Renton, Wash.-based Providence.

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai is becoming more like Netflix and Google Maps in its COVID-19 response by using predictive analytics to meet the needs of patients and staff as the disease progresses, according to a Newswise report.

The number of COVID-19 cases in Miami-Dade County spiked on Aug. 12 after a lab submitted data from tests originally taken in June, according to a report from News 4 Jax, a local news station.

North Carolina health officials blamed LabCorp for an error that required the state to remove data from thousands of COVID-19 tests from the official count, according to a report from WRAL, a local news station.

UH Ventures President David Sylvan has helped Cleveland-based University Hospitals manage challenges through the pandemic and sees many areas where innovative technologies can ensure the system improves efficiencies and cuts costs in the future.

Brian Caveney, MD, LabCorp Diagnostic's president and CMO, has spent only three years at the Burlington, N.C.-based company, but he has contributed to its expansion significantly — namely by leading efforts to scale up remote diagnostics.

Four of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to 2018 ONC data.

A group of senators recently introduced new legislation aimed at improving healthcare providers' patient record matching capabilities and COVID-19 response coordination, according to an Aug. 11 FedScoop report.