A plan to update the communications capabilities in the IT department of St. Luke’s University Health Network has the Bethlehem-based health network in the international spotlight as a leader in health communications technology. It has also been featured in a series of television advertisements by Microsoft to promote its new Teams solution that are airing globally.

A letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, signed by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and 19 other state attorneys general, asks the agency to lift its ban preventing gay and bi-sexual men from giving blood.

A series of changes in Medicare over the last month allowing health care providers to receive reimbursements for telemedicine services was something providers thought would take years.

Pennsylvania State Police are giving written warnings to Pennsylvanians who don’t comply with Gov. Tom Wolf’s order to wear a mask, but state officials are mostly relying on Pennsylvanians to “self enforcing” the directive.

Tower Health, the Reading-based health network, will furlough approximately 1,000 full time employees in response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health system.

Tower Health has launched a COVID-19 Information Center which will share will the health network's cumulative totals of COVID-19 cases, negative test results, patients on ventilators and related deaths with the public.

Coordinated Health has opened a virtual orthopedic clinic that will allow patients virtual instead of face to face visits.

The state’s plan for a transition to a post-COVID-19 existence seeks to fill many of the gaps in the $2.2 trillion CARES Act aid package, with expanded services for food-insecure Pennsylvanians, student loan debt relief, a “pandemic unemployment assistance” program and health plan coverage for coronavirus diagnostic testing.

Grand View Health has announced that former Penn State Health St. Joseph CFO Courtney Coffman has joined the leadership team as vice president and Chief Financial Officer of the Bucks County-based health system.

Reading Hospital has added an emergency tent adjacent to the hospital’s emergency department, one of several changes to adjust to the hospital’s needs during the COVID-19 crisis.