COVID-19

TraceTogether works by exchanging short-distance Bluetooth signals between phones to detect other participating TraceTogether users in close proximity.  

Early data from the roughly 100,000-participant effort suggest infrequent social distancing and regional behavior disparities (as of March 15).

[Since this article was published, the FDA has released an alert warning that it has not yet authorized any COVID-19 home testing kits]

The recently announced COVID-19 Open Research Dataset consists of more than 29,000 machine-readable coronavirus articles ripe for analysis.

Health systems around the world are using chatbots, drive-through clinics and telemedicine to address the needs of coronavirus patients.

Online mental health support is increasingly important as communities face lockdown and social distancing measures.

Also: Welltok expands to Latin America with insurer partnership; Kyruus and GYANT combine their offerings for health system clients.

The HIMSS Media editors discuss government and healthcare-organization response to the coronavirus, including chatbot services, drive-through testing sites and social-media monitoring.

AIA Singapore, which is part of the largest public listed pan-Asian life insurance group, announced that will cover the costs of 50,000 video medical consultations provided by WhiteCoat, a Singapore-based tele-medicine provider for all its HealthShield Gold Max policyholders.

First announced by President Trump on Friday as a nationwide resource, the testing-referral service already seems to have reached its capacity among California's Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.