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Walgreens Find Care now includes a COVID-19 risk assessment, powered by Microsoft Healthcare Bot on Microsoft Azure.

Covered entities and their cloud-service providers both have jobs to do when it comes to protecting hosted patient data – and have to strike a balance deciding who does what.

One of the largest university hospitals in Europe is turbo-charging its use of apps and online consultations to support patients during this crisis. Interoperability is clearly the key, as digitised processes are paying off.

The service, which is provided by Samitivej, is available free-of-charge and all-day from 8 April to 10 May 2020. 

Certain healthcare use cases are ripe for AI, but still must provide a human touch to truly benefit patient experience.

"My world before COVID consisted of taking care of patients one at a time," says one doctor. "Now, my duty is to serve an entire patient population." Other providers will soon have to acquaint themselves with remote monitoring and new models of care.

While new technologies are being deployed, health systems can use existing resources to help combat the coronavirus's spread.

SOC Telemed and SCP Health are augmenting emergency- and hospital-medicine capacity via telehealth – a critical capability for hospitals embattled by the rapid spread of the coronavirus.

Intelligence agencies, security firms and Big Tech giants and all ringing alarm bells over the growing threat from cybercriminals in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic – with ransomware attacks, opportunistic phishing threats and other malicious activities all threatening healthcare organizations worldwide.

Spanish CIOs from major hospitals explained in a HIMSS Europe webinar how they are handling the extreme situation caused by the pandemic.