Getting Comfortable with Virtual Visits During COVID-19

Providence is now offering "Virtual Visits" across their system to meet our individual needs. Their providers are able to diagnose many conditions virtually by asking you very specific questions about your symptoms and paying attention to any movements that indicate sensitivity or pain.

The Virtual Health Awakening

Conversa Health explains how the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the overwhelming need for virtual care and hastened its widespread adoption.

Lock In Telehealth Flexibility, Protections, Says AAFP

Telehealth flexibilities implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic clearly work and should be made permanent, the Academy and more than 300 other national, regional and state health care organizations told congressional leaders in a letter.

COVID-19 Response Raises the Bar for Health IT Going Forward

Allscripts explains which used technologies that help to identify patients with COVID-19, support their treatment, and help protect their staff. 

New Study from Fitbit Seeks to Advance COVID-19 and Flu Research with Early Detection

Fitbit explains how they can help build an algorithm to detect COVID-19 before symptoms start. If you are over the age of 21, living in the United States or Canada and have had or currently have COVID-19, or symptoms consistent with the flu.

The Role of AI and Machine Learning in Chronic Disease Management During COVID-19

There is an incredible opportunity for innovation to unlock alternate strategies to help cope with these impositions of COVID-19 on chronic conditions and that too, well beyond our pandemic has subsided. 

Manatt and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Developing a Consumer Health Data Privacy Framework

Everything You Need To Know About COVID-19 Antibody Testing! Get the facts!

If you got sick for a few weeks sometime this winter or spring, chances are you probably just had a run-of-the-mill viral infection. But you’ve probably thought to yourself at least once: “Is it possible I had COVID-19 and just didn’t know it?”

Verato Launches SDOH-Driven Solution to Support COVID-19 Contact Tracing

Verato, a provider of next-generation identity services, announces the launch of Verato Enrich, an identity information service that makes demographic and social determinants of health (SDOH) data more complete for public health and COVID-19 contact tracing.

Debunking COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Myths

Here are some of the substances and products that have been touted as ways to prevent infection with the COVID-19 virus or treat COVID-19 — and what the science says.