Population and Public Health

In this COVID-19 era, the need for health and care systems to become agile and change is very real. 

Just as it's doing with nearly every facet of society around the world, the COVID-19 crisis will radically transform approaches with patient engagement and pop health. From telemedicine and remote patient monitoring to AI and advanced analytics, healthcare was already in the midst of big changes in how it manages the health of patient populations. Now, in a new era where the pandemic is upending old assumptions, the stakes are even higher. This month, we look at how approaches to treating COVID-19 and other illnesses are shifting in this new era.  

The health system is implementing new technologies to help it pinpoint frequent readmissions and identify underlying social determinants of health. 

An integrated virtual clinic app has been designed to take the heat out of the struggle to maintain appointment levels when they are under intense stress from the COVID-19 response, as the situation steps up the pace of digital transformation.

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?

The in-development system foregoes GPS tracking and other identifying data collection methods in its effort to automate labor-intensive COVID-19 contact tracing. 

Also, tech-enabled home care provider Cera has concluded research into the performance of AI in comparison to human clinicians.

Vasileios Nittas, an epidemiologist from the University of Zurich, explains the importance of technology in the middle of a pandemic.

The new maps will be able to look at co-location, movement and social interaction data. 

The test was designed to identify specific antibodies in order to detect if a patient has had coronavirus in the past.