Philips plans to purchase a remote cardiac diagnostics and monitoring technology company for $2.8 billion.

Some frontline workers at UCHealth were given wearable body sensors to track their health after receiving their COVID-19 vaccine, the Aurora, Colo.-based health system said Dec. 17.

Google sister company Verily announced Dec. 17 the close of its recent $700 million investment round. 

Highmark Health, the parent company of Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network, entered into a strategic partnership with Google Cloud for its technology-driven healthcare model, Living Health.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University researchers developed an online calculator that estimates the individual and community-level risk of dying of COVID-19, which could help officials prioritize groups for vaccination. 

Digital healthcare companies saw big investments in 2020, with funding rounds sometimes totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.

Hospitals and health systems across the U.S. are pushing digital transformation efforts forward by creating new tools and launching innovative programs. 

The acceleration of digital transformation in healthcare is disrupting operational processes and transforming the roles of C-level leadership, posing the question of the CIO's traditional responsibilities and its emerging reputation as the new "COO by proxy."

The year 2020 has turned nearly every aspect of healthcare on its head, and the industry's IT field was no exception. 

Providence launched an online "heat map" Dec. 10 to let members of the public see how prevalent COVID-19 is across the geographic areas where the Renton, Wash.-based health system treats patients.

Technologists have been working to create digital apps to easily show a person's COVID-19 vaccine certification, but there are still key issues that experts say will make it unlikely the apps become widely available in the coming months, NBC News reports.

There were hundreds of investments in the healthcare sector in the third quarter, despite the pandemic, according to a report from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

As big tech's presence in the healthcare industry continues to grow, tech giants have been releasing new products, tools and features to improve clinical workflows and patient experiences.

The pandemic has spurred innovation in the health IT space during 2020, as hospitals and health systems find new ways to optimize workflows, use data to improve care delivery and connect patients to healthcare providers virtually.

Parents magazine selected 15 children's hospitals as the top pediatric healthcare providers for innovation and technology.

Here are eight recent health IT vendor contracts and go-lives accelerating digital transformation efforts at healthcare organizations.

The California governor's office is rolling out the University of California San Diego Health's COVID-19 exposure notification system across the state beginning Dec. 10.

Two days after closing on a $225.5 million financing round, Olive acquired an artificial intelligence company focused on streamlining the revenue cycle for healthcare providers.

Digital therapeutics and virtual care provider Biofourmis is rolling out its new virtual hospital-at-home program to healthcare organizations across the U.S., according to a Dec. 3 news release. 

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health is partnering with virtual care and communication platform Conversa Health to launch a COVID-19 screening tool for employers and schools across the state, according to a Dec. 3 news release.