Population Health

We asked for your experiences during the coronavirus public health emergency, and you've responded. Here are some of our readers' experiences so far.

The state hardest hit by the COVID-19 crisis is assembling new squads of technology companies and skilled IT professionals to "accelerate and amplify" its response to the coronavirus outbreak, and is looking for new recruits.

The Open Data Institute Leeds, NHS Digital and Beautiful Information have just run their first “Open Data Saves Lives” hackathon in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  

The goal of the hackathon is to bring together the decentralized artificial intelligence community in an effort to help find new approaches to combat the coronavirus crisis.

Deep Dive: Technology has a role to play in creating an interconnected system between providers and the community to know what resources are available.

CLEW’s platform provides predictive analytics to detect respiratory deterioration in advance.  

Henning Schneider, CIO, Asklepios Kliniken, Germany, and vice-chair board of directors at HIMSS, compares COVID-19 to recent epidemics and explains how priorities of the IT department have shifted in view of the current contagion, during the latest Talking Points webinar, organised by the HIMSS D-A-CH Community.

Professor Jörg Debatin, head of Germany's Health Innovation Hub,.addressed how telemedicine platforms, bots and IT systems help secure medical care remotely and enable efficient crisis management and accurate resource planning during the "Talking Points" webinar organised by the HIMSS D-A-CH Community.

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.

The CIO of Arizona's Health Current describes the health information exchange's efforts to serve its participants during the COVID-19 crisis – and discusses its ongoing efforts to boost data quality and consistency across the state.