Population and Public Health

This report comes as news breaks that the UK has decided not to use Apple and Google's contact-tracing tech as originally planned. 

A new study suggests that a deep learning system would save on the roughly two minutes of human labor required to grade each case, although a semi-automated approach was found to drive the greatest savings for large programs.

A rush to access the government’s coronavirus system set up to provide tests for keyworkers brought it to a temporary halt. Scientists at Siemens have promised a new antibody test by the end of May.

The new data will be available in the university's COVIDcast map, and on Facebook's Data for Good. 

In this COVID-19 era, the need for health and care systems to become agile and change is very real. 

Just as it's doing with nearly every facet of society around the world, the COVID-19 crisis will radically transform approaches with patient engagement and pop health. From telemedicine and remote patient monitoring to AI and advanced analytics, healthcare was already in the midst of big changes in how it manages the health of patient populations. Now, in a new era where the pandemic is upending old assumptions, the stakes are even higher. This month, we look at how approaches to treating COVID-19 and other illnesses are shifting in this new era.  

The health system is implementing new technologies to help it pinpoint frequent readmissions and identify underlying social determinants of health. 

An integrated virtual clinic app has been designed to take the heat out of the struggle to maintain appointment levels when they are under intense stress from the COVID-19 response, as the situation steps up the pace of digital transformation.

Governments are finding technology-based tracking is helping in slowing the spread of the coronavirus, but when does it cross the line into problematic surveillance?

The in-development system foregoes GPS tracking and other identifying data collection methods in its effort to automate labor-intensive COVID-19 contact tracing.