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This week's top stories include a plea to increase efforts to collect ethnicity data when administering vaccinations, and Apple and the University of Michigan sharing the first results from the Apple Hearing Study.

Deprexis, an app used to help mental health, is the 11th app to be approved for medical prescription and reimbursement in Germany so far via DiGA, and MobiHealthNews learns more about the process from Julia Hagen, Health Innovation Hub.

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

Also: Oscar Health IPO dips below expectations; DrChrono's new "all-in-one telehealth app experience."

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

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

The health tech company teamed up with New York State's Department of Public Health to distribute the vaccines. 

  Media reports indicate that One Medical has allowed people connected with company executives and other ineligible individuals to skip the vaccination line.   

Health IT can help combat the growing mental health and substance abuse disorder crisis, says Dr. Nishi Rawat, cofounder of addiction treatment connection service OpenBeds.

Along with the support of a Google Cloud-backed data platform, the partners will work to build and validate digital health programs for early intervention and engagement.