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The monitoring system will help medics triage patients with the virus.

Patients can also get care access to gender-affirming hormone therapy, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), urinary tract infection screening and the morning after pill with the new service. 

Their new COVID-19 care app helps ease the impact of staff absence.

Users will be able to use the service to tap into membership telehealth-provider PlushCare. 

Amid COVID-19, a new 1,000-person survey suggests high demand for remote health services.

Governments are finding technology-based tracking is helping in slowing the spread of the coronavirus, but when does it cross the line into problematic surveillance?

The two tech giants' unprecedented partnership looks to engage as many users in disease-tracing and prevention efforts as possible while tearing down the data silos of their respective smartphone platforms.

The in-development system foregoes GPS tracking and other identifying data collection methods in its effort to automate labor-intensive COVID-19 contact tracing. 

Also, tech-enabled home care provider Cera has concluded research into the performance of AI in comparison to human clinicians.