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The newly created Indiana Network for Population Health aims to securely exchange information on factors that affect population health and healthcare delivery.

The organization, looking for ways to treat pathogens, will mine electronic health records of COVID-19 patients and use analytics to expedite research to find optimal treatment approaches.

Getting specific answers to questions as they arise within care-delivery workflows has streamlined processes at Peninsula Regional Medical Center, pharmacists there explain.

The cloud-based Mural virtual-care technology, hosted on Microsoft's Azure platform, enables clinicians to monitor the ventilation status of multiple ICU patients at once.

Population health tech experts from Enli Health, Epic and Optum showcase best practices for making the IT work best at healthcare provider organizations.

The automated platform works by reading and collecting patient data, with minimal manual input, thereby accelerating the screening process.

In New York City, the health system is harnessing AI to help its patient population understand CDC guidelines and its own communications.

The app – accessed by texting "COVID" to 64722 – enables New York City residents to easily enroll to help the health system monitor coronavirus symptoms across the five boroughs, informing care decisions and pointing the way toward possible cures.

Uploaded temperature readings from a million Kinsa Health devices are enabling the company to map atypical fevers, offering a potential warning of increases in virus infections.

"EHR disaster preparedness testing in the future will need to be able to simulate large volumes of patients over long periods of time," says one nursing informatics consultant.