The mosquito-borne Zika virus has been much in the news of late, with reports pouring in of several new cases in the U.S. and, perhaps most alarmingly, a connection to infant brain defects in Brazil.

Despite its immense institutional know-how and its pure heft—11 hospitals, 5,000 medical staffers, $4 billion in net revenues—the Hospital Corporation of America’s multi-state, Denver-based Continental Division still found itself sending CDs and printouts via, among other low-tech image-sharing options, the chests of patients in ambulances and helicopters.

CHIME has launched its National Patient ID Challenge, a $1million crowdsourcing competition encouraging innovators to develop a private, accurate and safe solution for identifying patients. CHIME has teamed with HeroX, co-founded in 2013 by XPRIZE CEO Peter Diamandis, to run the year-long competition.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is accepting public comments on the recently released 2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory until March 21.

Health IT venture capital (VC) funding totaled $4.6 billion in 574 deals in 2015, slightly below 2014’s record $4.7 billion in 670 deals, according to a report from Mercom Capitol Group.

Royal Philips and Marin General Hospital (MGH) have launched a $90 million, 15-year partnership to improve healthcare in Marin County, Calif.

Despite being the subject of acquisition rumors, WebMD Health said it is not currently in any negotiations to be acquired.

In the second of a two-part series, Chris Trimble, MBA, the author of How Physicians Can Fix Health Care: One Innovation at a Time, spoke with Clinical Innovation + Technology about how healthcare organizations can innovate to improve patient outcomes.