The largest health system in the smallest state has agreed to pay $1,040,000 to HHS’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

Nearly 90% of executives leading medical-technology companies see emerging technologies as a top challenge. And they’re struggling to apply these advances not only to their product and service lines but also to their own business operations.

One point of easier-than-normal entry is nonclinical employees working from home. Another is providers’ weakened state. Many are strapped for cash and, as a result, stretching resources.

In February and March 2020, the inevitable happened: COVID-19 came to the United States, hitting the country’s healthcare system like a 10-pound sledgehammer. 

Despite the growing number of patients using such technology, only 21% are talking with their providers about how to correspond digitally, and it may be hindering more widespread adoption.

Researchers at Cleveland Clinic have created the first risk prediction model that allows healthcare providers to find the likelihood of an individual patient testing positive for COVID—19, as well as possible outcomes from the virus.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

Cigna, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, has expanded its virtual support services for mental and emotional health by adding Talkspace to its behavioral provider network.