WakeMed Health & Hospitals added a new feature to its Epic EHR that allows patients to map out a route to the Raleigh, N.C.-based health system's emergency room and notify clinicians of their estimated arrival time.

Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, is one of the first healthcare organizations in North America to begin using Microsoft's virtual reality headset HoloLens to reduce direct contact between COVID-19 patients and medical staff.

Two men from China have been charged with hacking into computer systems of hundreds of companies, governments and nongovernmental organizations in an attempt to steal COVID-19 research, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

FTC officials detailed their efforts to stop consumer scams linked to the coronavirus pandemic July 21 before a Senate commerce subcommittee. 

The Oklahoma State Department of Health says a "technical data-entry issue" led to a discrepancy in reporting COVID-19 case numbers, according to an Oklahoma News 4 report.

Miami-Dade County in Florida is updating its calculation for COVID-19 positivity rate to remove duplication, and the new rate is lower than what has been previously reported, according to NBC 6 South Florida.

Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health reported a $24 million loss on $1.86 billion revenue in 2019 and partially blamed an EHR investment for the loss, according to a Buffalo Business First report.

Pittsburgh-based UPMC has named Joanne Fanning CIO of UPMC in Ireland and head of the health system's new global technology operations center in Kilkenny. 

HHS has transitioned all COVID-19 data reporting to HHS Protect and launched a new website to report hospitalization data.

San Antonio CIO Craig Hopkins told local publication State Scoop that having an agile IT culture is essential during the pandemic.