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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. 

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

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.

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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.

NHS 111 staff will be enabled to book appointments for patients at appropriate surgeries in the UK.

Data privacy will be a key focus as development of the government’s NHS tracing app heads toward testing and review. But with release still unlikely for several weeks, one member of the development team suggests that lost time has already cost lives.

Epstein Becker & Green's Bradley Merrill Thompson describes the agency's current trajectory for regulation of patient-facing and provider-facing telehealth products that incorporate AI.

The telehealth vendor's deal with the state comes shortly after another agreement that provided the services to Medicaid, children's health insurance members.