1 - Telehealth Could Be Solution for Pandemics.
COVID-19 emergency funding lets individuals access reliable preventive and symptoms information from primary care providers. (HIT Consultant Media)
2 - AI Can ID Unseen COVID-19 Sufferers & Enable Proactive Care
COVID-19 pushes people to avoid hospitals to get acute or chronic care or standard preventative tests and services. AI tackles "unseen sufferers" by targeting at-risk individuals. (HIT Consultant Media)
3 - COVID-19 Makes Data Interoperability Compliance a Priority
Government healthcare regulation now require data interoperability. It occurred too late for COVID-19, but interoperability offers a wealth of ways to revolutionize healthcare. (HIT Consultant Media)
4 - An Impending Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Revolution
AI has many algorithms and computing power to tackle difficult healthcare challenges. Why hasn't it been applied? AI requires real data for training, an issue to be solved by Electronic Health Records. (HIT Consultant Media)
5 - COVID-19: Prevent Oncoming Medical Information Crisis
Healthcare providers are overwhelmed by a COVID-19flawed data influx. Without sound information architecture, it will affect responses of healthcare providers, hospitals, insurers, researchers, and government. (HIT Consultant Media)
6 - COVID-19's Impact on Telehealth and HIPAA Regulations
Will the easing in regulatory barriers to healthcare outlast the pandemic? HHS departments announced eased regulations to telehealth services to increase them for patients and providers. Will they last? (HIT Consultant Media)
7 - Know 'Conditions & Maintenance Certificate' Requirements
The 21st Century Cures Act requires HHS to write "Conditions and Maintenance Certificate" requirements for oncology health IT certification programs. IT developers, their modules must comply. (Health IT Buzz)
8 - mHealth Could Revolutionize Engagement with NHS
Mobile health applications may be incorporated into healthcare practices to perform functions once done by GPs. Data shows people under 55 prefer the internet for their health information. (The Knowledge Exchange Blog)
9 - Microsoft Chatbot Tells Survivors: Can They Give Plasma?
A new Microsoft chatbot enables COVID-19 survivors to determine whether they can donate plasma for research. It screens patients about their virus status and other health factors. (MobiHealthNews)
10 - 'Health Data Privacy' Debate Coming Post-COVID-19
Chief clinical officer of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society urges open discussion about preserving privacy and secondary data gathered during surveillance and tracking. (Healthcare IT News)
11 - LiveChat, Infermedica Debut Risk Assessment Chatbot
The chatbot from Infermedica's WHO-recognized COVID-19 Assessment Tool helps prevent uneeded hospital visits, lowers the number infected, and aids healthcare institutions. (Healthcare IT News)
12 - UCSD Has eCOVID Remote Patient Monitoring App
Engineers and doctors at the University of California San Diego telemedicine clinic created an eCOVID app to track remotely vital signs, health behavior, and self -reported symptoms. (Healthcare IT News)
13 - Healthcare Platform Launched by Change Healthcare
Change Healthcare has released the Connected Consumer Health Suite for healthcare providers. It allows streamlined experiences in many steps of the patient journey. (HIT Consultant Media)
14 - Indiana Launches 'Social Determinants of Health'
The Regenstrief Institute and Indiana partners have launched the Indiana Network for Popualation health (INPH), desgined for the secure exchange of comprehensive SDOH data. (Healthcare Innovation)
15 - Virigina Communiity Indicators Dashboard Introduced
Data from Conduent Inc'.s Healthy Communities Institute population health platform reveals a 23-year gap in life expectancy in South Hampton Roads census tracts. (Healthcare Innovation)
16 - Where Apple May Be Headed Next in Healthcare
Apple has an install base of over 1 billion devices. It launched its own PHR app which may face less pushback relative to consideration of the ONC's interoperability guidelines. (Becker’s Health IT)
17 - NIH Opens 'All of Us' Precision Medicine Dataset
The All of Us Researcher Workbench platform has been launched for beta testing with 225,000 participants. NIH seeks to give researchers data and tools to advance medical studies. (Becker’s Health IT)
18 - NIH Seeks COVID-19 Contact Tracing App for Privacy
NIH issued a request for information to companies capable of giving recommendations on develop a mobile app to gather COVID-19 data, while leaving untouched the individual's data. (Becker’s Health IT)
19 - Google and Apple Release Their Contact-Tracing Software
Google and Apple launched the Exposure Notification API. Public health agencies can use it to create contact-tracing apps. (Digital Health)
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