New research, released by a team based in Turkey, Qatar, and the United Kingdom, has indicated that a specialised eye exam can be used to identify long COVID.
Published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology, the research found that corneal confocal microscopy (CCM) – a non-invasive eye test that conducts real-time imaging of corneal nerve fibres – can also potentially be used to confirm...
When social media companies like Facebook and YouTube were founded, it’s a good bet that their founders didn’t imagine themselves to be creating public health tools. But in the face of a global pandemic, it’s become obvious that that’s exactly what they created.
And as far as health leaders at these companies are concerned, that’s a good thing.
“As someone who’s been in public health for about 20...
Nothing brings healthcare stakeholders together like a pandemic – from a speedy vaccine rollout to setting up telehealth platforms within weeks, providers, payers and the pharmaceutical industry had to work together to weather the changes brought on by COVID-19.
So what’s next for these healthcare industry partnerships when the pandemic is over? In the HIMSS21 Digital panel, What's Next: Payer-...
Yelp will allow businesses to display information on their profiles about COVID-19 vaccination requirements and whether staff are vaccinated.
The review website and app announced Thursday that businesses can post whether customers must show proof of vaccination and whether staff are fully vaccinated. Users will also be able to filter businesses based on those vaccination policies.
Yelp will help...
Qantas to roll out IATA's digital health pass
Australian flag carrier Qantas Airways is looking to roll out the digital health pass of the International Air Transport Association once regular Qantas and Jetstar international flights resume.
The airline firm said in its media release that it will proceed with the IATA pass after months of conducting trials of several digital solutions on Qantas's...
One of the few silver linings to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic is healthcare’s digital transformation. The past year and a half saw increased rates of telehealth usage, record-breaking investments in digital health companies and more organizations adopting artificial intelligence in innovative ways.
In a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital Session set to air on Monday, August 9, Hal Wolf, the...
AI systems developer Deep Longevity, a unit of Hong Kong-listed Endurance RP Limited, has launched an online tool that can potentially estimate the survival of a hospitalised COVID-19 patients.
WHAT IT DOES
The web-based COVID Risk Calculator provides a patient's COVID-19 risk score, expected time to death (TTD) and survival probability curve. It requires a physician to input 15 health variables...
Malaysian telemedicine provider DOC2US has recently introduced a diagnostic system that enables rapid COVID-19 testing at home.
WHAT IT DOES
The Rapid Test Kit Intelligent System (RTKis) empowers corporations and public agencies to test, record, manage and report COVID-19 cases.
According to a press statement, the solution features a government-approved antigen test kit that allows users to self...
For the past several months, Healthcare IT News Features Editor Bill Siwicki has been writing a series on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic for hospitals throughout the U.S. For this installment of HIMSSCast, Bill and host Jonah Comstock are joined by Paul Coyne, NP, clinical practice and chief nursing informatics officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery, and Joe Fisne, associate...
More than a year after Facebook pledged to curb the spread of COVID-19 misinformation on its platform, the social media giant blocked content under the #VaccinesKill hashtag.
Now, instead of showing fear-mongering posts about vaccines, searches for the hashtag lead users to a “keeping our community safe” page that says some of the posts with the hashtag go against the website’s community...
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