Population Health

Providers who e-prescribe birth control through apps and online pharmacies doubt the decision will significantly affect their practices, but they say the mandate is harmful for those who need contraception.

Patients have generally gone to their doctor's offices to obtain remote monitoring devices – but the pandemic is proving they don't have to.

The Oxford University spin-out is also calling on the government to review what data it is collecting on the COVID-19 crisis by ethnic groups.     

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services also announced it would give $450 million to the biotech company Regeneron to manufacture and supply the company's antibody treatment.  

The report offers best practices and advice – around software, data-governance, legal and ethical considerations and more – for four key research areas: clinical data, omics practices, epidemiology and social sciences.

Medicspot has announced a partnership with Asda to offer in-store GP video-consultations in the latest expansion of digital primary care services.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT found that the majority of centers used a combination of electronic and paper methods to manage client health information in 2017.

An interview with Dr Helmi Zakariah, CEO, AIME.   

"We are hearing from patients and providers who are concerned about when Medicare’s temporary changes to telehealth rules will be rolled back and whether they will receive any advance notice," they said.

The value of involving clinicians in digital tool development and the power of data sharing were major themes of a HIMSS Digital Dialogue webinar, held in collaboration with Philips, where European healthcare leaders shared their pandemic experiences.