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

There were close to 1,300 equity investments in healthcare companies during Q2, with tech startups drawing much of the capital.

Change Healthcare has seen some big changes of its own in the year since its IPO, says CEO Neil de Crescenzo, who shares how it's honing its technologies to help payers, providers and patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This week's top stories include hospitals scrambling to comply with the requirement to submit data to HHS, while the U.S. government is partnering with Pfizer on a potential COVID-19 vaccine.

World leaders, decision-makers and other thought leaders offer practical insights on responding to the COVID-19 emergency at FutureMed 2020.

Because Sparrow Health already had the infrastructure in place, it was able to quickly make the transition from in-person care to virtual care, says Dr. Michael Zaroukian, VP, CMIO and CTO of the health system.

Dr. Jenifer Leaf Jaeger, senior medical director at HealthEC, says her company is able to identify the top 10% of a client's patients who are at highest risk for a severe outcome due to COVID-19.

Executives spoke about navigating through the pandemic during the Healthcare Financial Management Association Digital Annual Conference.

Westchester Medical Center, hit hard by COVID-19, added strength to its 10-hospital system by creating redundancy in cross-coverage by physicians and specific COVID-19 workflows, claim Corey Scurlock, MD, the health system's medical director, and Wendy Deibert, VP of Clinical Solutions at Caregility.

Nationally, people aged 51 to 60 were charged the most, according to the FAIR Health study.