Population Health

The EHR vendor will also feature updates from its Epic Health Research Network, along with focuses on interoperability, patient access, population health and analytics.

The electronic health record vendor has also updated its on-campus masking policies in response to public health guidance.

Data silos started to open up as hospitals put collaboration at the heart of their pandemic response.

This week's top stories include Amwell snapping up SilverCloud Health and Conversa Health, the AMA backing vaccine mandates for healthcare workers, and the VA suspending Cerner EHR rollouts until 2022.

COVID-19 changed how we think and raises our obligations moving forward, Dowling says.

Officials told House representatives that the agency would not schedule any further deployments in the next six months.

Proof of vaccination will also continue to be required.

New ethics guidance cautions against overestimating the benefits of technology.

Despite the widespread adoption telehealth saw during the COVID-19 pandemic, many telehealth deployments still fall short of real user-friendliness and provide less than ideal patient experiences, especially for certain populations that might have less access to reliable Internet or less experience with telecommunications.

For the COVID-19 HotSpotting Score, investigators use a combination of indicators to help predict upticks of cases and potential hospital admissions – with up to six weeks' lead time.