Humana on July 29 announced a $100 million investment in and new partnership with telehealth home care startup Heal. 

Discarded medical records from a shuttered clinic in Wilmington, N.C., were found in a dumpster behind the facility, according to a report from the StarNews Online, a local media outlet.

Royal Oak, Mich.-based Beaumont Health reported information about thousands of patients was potentially exposed during a phishing scam earlier this year, according to the Detroit Free Press.

About 18 percent of hospitals in Texas aren't reporting complete data to the Texas Department of State Health Services, according to a report from Local 23 KVEO, an NBC affiliate.

An HHS report on telehealth utilization for Medicare beneficiaries during the pandemic found that while the visits were up in both rural and urban areas, the biggest growth was in urban areas.

About 22 percent of COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes in Indiana were not represented in the state's datasets until the reporting system was revised this month, according to a July 28 IndyStar report. 

Hospitals and clinics continued to rack up the highest average data breach costs in 2020 at $7.13 million, up 10 percent since last year, according to IBM Security's July 29 report.

Gianrico Farrugia, MD, CEO of Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic, penned an article for U.S. News & World Report saying the pandemic highlighted the need to revolutionize healthcare delivery to eliminate disparities in access to care and deliver better outcomes.

HHS partnered with the VA and Department of Energy to coordinate and share COVID-19 health data.

Providence, R.I.-based Lifespan and Brown University teamed to launch a new digital health center that aims to streamline technology and eliminate health disparities for local and global communities.