Population Health

Before COVID-19, Central Maine Healthcare had used remote care sparingly, says CMIO Dr. Steven Martel. By July, it had conducted 25,000 virtual visits.

The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute will fund a study designed to assess how COVID Watch, its text-based monitoring program, has improved care in hard-hit minority communities – and how it can be further improved.

CEO Prof. Eugene Kandel says once the ecosystem is connected in a single depository, it's relatively easy to collect needs and bring them together.

Healthcare decision makers, patients, clinicians, nurses, life science professionals, innovators and many more convened virtually at the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Digital Event from 7-11 September 2020.

One of the more remarkable features of the NHS’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been its rapid uptake of technology in the UK says director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay.

Following President Trump's executive order on virtual care, the American Hospital Association issued a series of recommendations supporting access to telehealth after the public health emergency ends.

Those pandemic-era technologies will reach the fabled Plateau of Productivity sooner than other emerging innovations approaching the peak of the curve, such as digital twins, data fabric and SASE network architecture, researchers say.

This week's top stories include AdventHealth lamenting $260 million in losses, Dr. Fauci "cautiously optimistic" about a vaccine by early 2021 and a study finding ICD-10 codes have poor sensitivity for fever, cough and labored breathing.

Also, a new study ranks Europe’s best startups in 2020.

White House task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said the process of HHS bypassing the CDC was meant to be "solely an interim system," according to a WSJ report that HHS later denied.