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Marc Probst, longtime CIO at Intermountain Healthcare and new CIO at ELLKAY, also discusses digital transformation and the cost challenges facing healthcare now – as well as the IT innovation he sees emerging from the COVID-19 crisis.

Remote monitoring of patients can help balance staff safety with patient needs, according to Matthew Sappern, CEO of PeriGen.

Cybersecurity expert Randy Bradley says outside-the-four-walls threats include makeshift triage units, but you can still move wisely even if you are moving fast.

This week's top stories include two digital health titans merging under the Teladoc name, CMS proposing telehealth changes under Trump's executive order, and dispatches from the Taskforce of Telehealth Policy's virtual town hall.

The strategic investment will help Heal expand its services into Chicago, Charlotte, Houston and other new regions.

CEO Neil de Crescenzo says Change Healthcare, which has seen some big changes in the year since its IPO, says, has been tailoring its technologies to help payers, providers and patients during the pandemic.

News of the potential sale or merger with a special purpose acquisition company appears at the same time as one-on-one counseling and a key strategic hire.

Dr. Michael Zaroukian, VP, CMIO and CTO of Sparrow Health, discusses why patient centeredness, financial incentives and a turnkey system are needed for telehealth to work.

HealthEC can identify the top 10% of a client's patients who are at highest risk for a severe outcome due to the coronavirus, says Senior Medical Directory Dr. Jenifer Leaf Jaeger.

Corey Scurlock, MD, Westchester Medical Center's medical director, and Wendy Deibert, VP of Clinical Solutions at Caregility, say COVID-19 brought to light the value of telehealth and no one wants to go back to a pre-telehealth world.