Consumer
Using a designated kit ordered by a doctor, patients will be able to self-swab and mail their samples to LabCorp testing facilities. The self-collection kits will be available in "most states" in the coming weeks.
Patients are screened about COVID-19 status and other health factors, then provided with information about the nearest donation station.
The new data will be available in the university's COVIDcast map, and on Facebook's Data for Good.
Also: Mercom's Q1 2020 digital health funding report; Fitbit, Scripps, Stanford collaborate on COVID-19 detection research.
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.
COVID-19
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?