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. 

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.

A rush to access the government’s coronavirus system set up to provide tests for keyworkers brought it to a temporary halt. Scientists at Siemens have promised a new antibody test by the end of May.

The new data will be available in the university's COVIDcast map, and on Facebook's Data for Good.