1. Biden to sign 10 exec orders on pandemic response -- 6 COVID-19 updates  Full story

2. Cerner names new CFO: 5 things to know  Full story

3. 640,436 patients' info exposed in Texas health system IT security breach  Full story

4. Join us for Becker's February Health IT + Revenue Cycle Management Virtual Forum. Click here to register!

5. Healthcare execs, physicians pardoned by Trump  Full story

6. California likely missed goal of 1M vaccines in 10 days: 6 details on data issues slowing rollout   Full story

7. Amazon offers to help Biden with his COVID-19 vaccination goal  Full story

8. 5 recent health IT exec moves  Full story

9. Has COVID-19 changed the way patients want healthcare providers to communicate with them? Click here to download the whitepaper.

10. Optum expects to add 10,000 physicians this year  Full story

11. Ransomware attack on mailing service exposes info of 20,000+ Oregon clinic patients  Full story

12. California physician arrested in connection with Capitol riot  Full story

13. Your healthcare organization's data needs protection. Join this webinar to learn how you can safeguard it with cybersecurity measures, digital ID and biometrics.

14. Health innovation insider: 7 rapid-fire Qs with Memorial Sloan Kettering digital chief Dr. Claus Torp Jensen  Full story

15. Daily COVID-19 stats, state-by-state:

• Test positivity rates
• Hospitalizations
• Where the virus is spreading fastest, slowest
• Death rates
• Vaccines administered 

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