Population Health

V-Health Passport will shortly start its roll-out programme of health passport across a number of airlines and airports globally.

A New Variant Assessment Platform will open up Britain’s genomics laboratories and offer advice and resources to other countries in need.

Lawmakers in legislatures nationwide have introduced about 300 bills aimed at expanding access to telemedicine – but not every bill is equally helpful. 

The clinically integrated network uses the technology to help primary care physicians, nurse coordinators and care managers close quality gaps.

The Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act of 2021 includes broadly popular provisions such as eliminating geographic and originating site restrictions.  

Deep Dive: While COVID-19 will remain a challenge in 2021, the vaccines raise hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

By using patient age, sex and daily clinical state, the machine learning model also predicts the probability of in-hospital mortality. 

"Ensure your tech stack protects delivery, cold chain, workers, administrators, dispatchers and end users, with transparency into exactly when the vaccines will be delivered," says Onfleet CEO.

As would-be vaccine recipients scramble for appointment time slots, in too many cases "the technology is just being used wrong," says one exec.

This week's top stories include Biden announcing health-related appointees and nominees, including appointing Jeffrey Zients as head of the White House's COVID-19 response team and Micky Tripathi as head of National Coordinator for Health IT.