COVID-19

As the delta variant spreads in the U.S., Yelp will let businesses share information on vaccination requirements for customers and whether staff are vaccinated.

This week's top stories include Amwell snapping up digital mental health company SilverCloud Health and virtual care company Conversa Health, the AMA backing vaccine mandates for healthcare workers and the VA suspending Cerner EHR rollouts.

Also, an Australian software startup will incorporate its scheduling solution into the American telehealth platform FaceMyDoc.

In an upcoming HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital Session, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian will discuss where healthcare tech will go from here.   

Telehealth Connection TV: VA CIO Dominic Cussatt describes how the agency was well-positioned to offer telemedicine to patients when the pandemic hit.

The online tool provides a COVID-19 patient's risk score, expected time to death and survival probability curve based on 15 health variables.

The diagnostic system enables self-testing and uses AI to prevent fraudulent results.

Host Jonah Comstock and HITN features editor Bill Siwicki welcome Paul Coyne and Joe Fisne to discuss what they learned during the pandemic

The move follows recent White House criticism of social media sites for spreading public health misinformation.   

The state government of Victoria was found to be the biggest COVID-19-related ad spender during the pandemic.