Population Health

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.

The agency's Interoperability Proving Ground is becoming a hotbed of coronavirus projects. Meanwhile, HIMSS Healthbox has launched a digital think tank to cross-pollinate ideas that work.

Just-released coronavirus-specific chatbots are delivering test results quicker and checking in on quarantined patients.

Dubai-based private healthcare entities, Aster DM Healthcare and HealthHub by Al-Futtaim have introduced their own videoconference-style consultations to help the public during restricted movement.  

Just as it's doing with nearly every facet of society around the world, the COVID-19 crisis will radically transform approaches with patient engagement and pop health.

An interview with Professor John Beard of the ARC Centre for Excellence in Population Aging Research, University of New South Wales, Australia.

First set to deploy in Washington State, the scalable smartphone app, which integrates with Epic's Care Everywhere platform, is aimed at care delivery in nontraditional settings without EHRs.

COVID-19 appeared in late 2019 and its epicentre has been moving with alarming speed from the far east toward Europe and now more toward the Americas.

In what it's calling an "unprecedented" exercise in information sharing, the administration is calling on health systems to share daily updates from their in-house labs with federal agencies.

As the number of lives touched by COVID-19 is continuously mounting, so are the efforts of IT departments to counter the rising pressure on hospitals.