Population and Public Health
The new website and app were born out of a partnership with Apple, the CDC, the White House Coronavirus Task Force and FEMA.
This morning MassChallenge hosted a virtual summit focused on innovation and the coronavirus.
The new tool aims at collecting data from people in their homes.
Facebook also plans to hold a virtual hackathon focused on COVID19.
How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting you?
[Since this article was published, the FDA has released an alert warning that it has not yet authorized any COVID-19 home testing kits]
Early data from the roughly 100,000-participant effort suggest infrequent social distancing and regional behavior disparities (as of March 15).
[Since this article was published, the FDA has released an alert warning that it has not yet authorized any COVID-19 home testing kits]
The HIMSS Media editors discuss government and healthcare-organization response to the coronavirus, including chatbot services, drive-through testing sites and social-media monitoring.
Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, chief clinical officer for Providence St. Joseph Health, talks about the use of chatbots, telemedicine and drive-thru clinics in treating the virus.