Population and Public Health

Opt-in "Exposure Notifications" are included in new operating system updates on both companies' platforms and available now to worldwide public health agencies.

The HIMSS Media team discusses how vendors, payers and policymakers are looking to answer the growing demand for mental and behavioral health services.

Downloaded and used by millions of U.K. and U.S. residents, the study app provided data on which symptoms are associated with confirmed cases, and roughly how many untested users likely have the disease.

WHO also released guidelines about contact tracing for the coronavirus yesterday. 

Users will now be able to collect a sample at home and send it to the lab in a sealed package.

Also Chinese startup develops smartglasses that can detect temperature. 

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.