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Optum was already a stakeholder in the New York company thanks to a "significant investment" it made early in 2019.

Users can fill out an online platform, get blood drawn at a Quest service center, and get results on a digital portal within two days. 

Like many other virtual-care services, the company has seen its audience spike within the past few months.

Patients can enter their insurance information and needs, and will get a curated list of products with prices. 

Survey found that 80% of patients and 74% of GPs would like remote consultations to continue after lockdown.    

It is the only contact tracing app that is approved by the Australian Government.

Marianna Imenokhoeva, founder at LinktoMedicine and HIMSS Future50 International, talks about reopening economies, and how telehealth will be more relevant than ever in the post-COVID-19 world.

Also: Wearables, AI support COVID-19 hydroxychloroquine study; Verizon Media deploys new COVID-19 dataset, API and dashboard.

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.