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Digital health and tech can help refugees access necessary medical care and other social determinants of health, like housing, employment and education. 

This week's top stories include Tenet Healthcare workers securing better pay after striking, Inspiration4 preparing to test the impact of spaceflight on the body, and Stanford researchers highlighting gaps in telemedicine.

The German pharma giant is working with top eye hospitals in the country to support virtual care for patients with Diabetic Macular Edema or age-related macular degeneration.

Also, an Indian online medical news portal launches a mobile app version.

The platform can capture a 360-view of a live medical procedure, a record of which is later stored in a cloud server.

The device uses predictive AI to alert staff about patient's deteriorating conditions. 

Healthcare organizations can use experience, cost and quality data to create a unified, value-driven enterprise, says Walt Ellenberger, SAP's senior director of Healthcare Business Development & Strategic Alliances.

Researchers found an app that helped pediatric drug preparation lowered the rate of medication errors and let paramedics deliver the drugs more quickly.

Monthly Update: HIMSS Media Editor in Chief Jonah Comstock recaps some of August's top healthcare stories, including HIMSS21 and HIMSS21 Digital highlights, and an increasing number of vaccine mandates for healthcare and tech companies.

Dr. Brian Covino, chief medical officer at Cohere Health, discusses using AI and ML to improve the prior authorization process as well as reducing payer and provider friction.