Emily Olsen
HIMSS21 Digital
What comes after the pandemic? Accolade CMO Dr. Shantanu Nundy and Pfizer's senior director for clinical informatics, Saira Haque, discuss how COVID-19 has changed partnerships between players in the healthcare industry and what they can learn.
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.
Also: Kenshō Health, which helps patients find holistic healthcare providers, raised another $3.5 million.
Humanity launched an iPhone app in the U.K. that claims to slow aging. The app will be available worldwide in early September.
More than 90,000 digital health apps were released last year – an average of 250 per day – according to the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science's 2021 trends report.
Azure Healthcare APIs let users input health data and map it to the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource to be searched, shared or managed.
CareVention HealthCare, a division of Tabula Rasa HealthCare, launched a remote patient monitoring service that uses biosensors and artificial intelligence to monitor patients’ vital signs and alert providers if necessary.
Abbott has received clearance from the FDA for its imaging software that uses artificial intelligence to provide doctors a better view of blood flow and blockages in heart vessels.
Researchers found patients who used reSET-O along with buprenorphine and counseling lowered their healthcare costs by $2,385 per person in the six months after they started using the app, compared with the six months before.