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The coronavirus pandemic has driven some UK GPs to digitise patient consultations at speed – achieving transformation in weeks with the help of online triage tools.

Also: HHS awards $20 million in telehealth access, infrastructure funds; Lumi launches online service.

The integrated app allows providers using DrChrono's platform to schedule and launch video visits from within their calendar, while next month's tool helps patients search for and receive virtual care.

Also Chinese startup develops smartglasses that can detect temperature. 

As 14 European health innovation projects receive more than €6 million in funding from EIT Health, CEO Jan-Philipp Beck says the COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate the speed of change enabled by digital healthcare and telemedicine – and not before time.

Dr. Don Rucker, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, discusses his work with the Global Digital Health Partnership initative. 

Virtual primary care, acute care, chronic disease management and specialty consultations will all be available directly through DarioHealth's app.

The new tool will be released for limited distribution and will provide multimodal neurobehavioral interventions. 

In the HIMSS20 Digital webinar “Women in Healthcare and Tech: Closing the Gap to Strategic,” Amy McDonough, SVP of Fitbit Health Solutions, and Dr. Ashwini Zenooz, CMO at Salesforce, discussed the importance of having diverse voices at the table. 

Stony Brook University experts describe key design points for a successful in-home senior-health-monitoring system, and their efforts to develop such a tool.