Northwell Health’s intensive care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Sandra Lindsay, is the first person in the US to receive Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.

The CareScan+ team from North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust wins another award this year, picking up the trophy for the Patient Safety Award at the 2020 Business Health Awards.

J2 and CareCom announce the launch of J2 Managed Terminology, a cloud-based solution that offers the power of the HealthTerm semantics platform as a cost-effective managed service. With J2 Managed Terminology, healthcare organizations will be able to create a single source of truth for enterprise-wide semantic interoperability.

The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) announced today Phase 1 of the Nabidh initiative, Dubai’s HIE and Population Health Program that enables healthcare professionals to securely access unified medical records from both private and public medical facilities in Dubai.

InterSystems announced the extension of its support to Greater Houston Healthconnect, a regional health information exchange (HIE) serving counties in southeast Texas and western Louisiana. This decision comes in response to COVID-19 to better collect, normalize, aggregate, and share patient data to help fight the pandemic.

VetsEZ, the prime contractor supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), announced the full national production release of the State Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) solution to combat the Veterans’ Opioid Crisis. This statewide release comes following the success of initial releases at two VA Medical Centers.