Population and Public Health
In this HIMSS TV Deep Dive, we show how health systems are leveraging advanced technologies such as AI, analytics and telehealth to manage patient populations while still staying focused on the basic building blocks of health and wellness.
As racial disparities surface in the coronavirus pandemic, tapping diverse perspectives to create digital health tools is key.
Patient Orator founder and CEO Kistein Monkhouse discusses the long history of racial inequalities in healthcare, and how technology can pinpoint those with the highest risk.
This report comes as news breaks that the UK has decided not to use Apple and Google's contact-tracing tech as originally planned.
A new study suggests that a deep learning system would save on the roughly two minutes of human labor required to grade each case, although a semi-automated approach was found to drive the greatest savings for large programs.
A rush to access the government’s coronavirus system set up to provide tests for keyworkers brought it to a temporary halt. Scientists at Siemens have promised a new antibody test by the end of May.
Scripps Translational Science Institute Epidemiologist Jennifer M. Radin discusses how data from wearables such as Fitbits can be used to track influenza-like illnesses, including COVID-19.
The new data will be available in the university's COVIDcast map, and on Facebook's Data for Good.
pandemic
In this COVID-19 era, the need for health and care systems to become agile and change is very real.