Population and Public Health
Dr. Elizabeth Marshall, director of clinical analytics at Linguamatics, shares how machine learning can help flag troubling patterns and improve systems moving forward.
This week's top stories include Google Cloud joining the national COVID-19 vaccination effort with a new distribution tool, the feds sending one million COVID-19 vaccine doses to 6,500 pharmacies, and a security breach at Montefiore Medical Center.
Monica Jones, chief data officer for Health Data Research UK and executive lead for Yorkshire and Humber Care Record, says standardized datasets have required an acceleration of digital transformation and interoperable standards in particular.
The Ellume COVID-19 Home Test was the first rapid self-test authorized by the FDA for the detection of COVID-19 in individuals with or without symptoms.
Megan Callahan, VP of healthcare at Lyft, details how the ridesharing company responded to new demands as a result of COVID-19.
Professor Claudia Pagliari, director of global eHealth at the University of Edinburgh, says sharing data with local public health authorities will improve management of public health crises while also reducing health inequalities.
The study compared mentions of pneumonia in the winter of 2019-2020 to those of previous winters.
The approval of the tests comes as new cases of COVID-19 recorded today reached an all-time daily high – sparking fears of a new lockdown in the United Arab Emirates.
Deep Dive: COVID-19 will remain a challenge in 2021, but the vaccines raise hope that progress is being made in the battle with the coronavirus and countries are seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.
The tech giant is also teaming up with providers to use its capacities for vaccination.