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This week's top stories include the House approving a bill that strengthens the Affordable Care Act by making coverage more affordable for the next two years, bad bots bombarding vaccine sign-up sites, and PatientPoint merging with Outcome Health.

Dr. David Mendelson, vice chair of radiology IT at Mount Sinai, and Dave Cassel, executive director of Carequality, share how image exchange is advancing away from CD-ROMs and toward image-enabled personal health records.

David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems, looks at recent progress and remaining challenges, as well as ways healthcare organizations can take action now until true interoperability is a reality.

Kim Garriott, CIO of healthcare at NetApp, says innovation increases when you have leaders who think in inclusive ways.

Randy Gaboriault, chief digital and information officer at ChristianaCare, describes how the health system developed a new Alexa Skill designed for home care patients, and discusses larger emerging trends around AI and remote patient monitoring.

Sinequa VP Jeff Evernham says Intelligent Search analyzes unstructured content and documents as well as structured information for faster, smarter decision-making.

This week's top stories include a plea from medical groups to increase efforts to collect ethnicity data when administering COVID-19 vaccinations, and Johnson & Johnson and Merck ramping up manufacturing of the vaccine.

Dr. Derk Arts, founder and CEO of Castor, which develops automation tools for clinical trials research, describes how expanded access to its technology can improve health outcomes.

CynergisTek CEO Caleb Barlow says that with new ransomware tricks and recent attempts at "double extortion" on the black market, "we've really seen a marked change in adversarial intent."

There's been a regression in the use of virtual health since its huge spike at the beginning of the pandemic. The Chartis Group's Thomas Kiesau and Gregg Mohrmann say the answer is changing the operating model, not better technology.