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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.

Health IT can help manage the mental health and substance abuse disorder crisis that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, says Dr. Nishi Rawat, cofounder of OpenBeds, an addiction treatment connection service.

Gray Matter Analytics CEO Sheila Talton says providers need prescriptive analytics to lower their risk in value-based contracts.

Here are some of the stories of Black clinicians and innovators responsible for transformative medical advancements over the past two centuries.

This week's top stories include U.S. hospitals and health systems facing a long road to recovery after COVID-19's devastating winter surge and HHS Secretary nominee Xavier Becerra signaling support for virtual care.

Penn Medicine CIO Michael Restuccia discusses the challenges of remote work for IT staff, having to hit pause on a big implementation due to the pandemic and what it means to serve the community during times of crisis.

New machine learning tools are helping surface relevant information where and when it's needed, says Brian Robertson, CEO of VisiQuate.