Population Health

Digital tools give the elderly the ability to live longer, with better quality lives, at home, according to Dr. Ben Maruthappu, CEO of Cera. Technology also helps ease strain on healthcare systems.

Linguamatics' Dr. Elizabeth Marshall says machine learning can help flag troubling patterns and improve systems moving forward.

This week's top stories include Google Cloud rolling out a vaccine distribution tool, the federal government sending one million COVID-19 vaccine doses directly to 6,500 pharmacies, and a security breach at Montefiore Medical Center.

Following authorization, Johnson & Johnson says it expects to supply 100 million doses to the U.S. in the first half of 2021.

Eric Rock, Vivify's CEO, looks toward remote patient monitoring to realize the possibilities of healthcare.  

One of the vaccines being distributed by COVAX, from AstraZeneca, has 76% efficacy after one dose and 82% efficacy after two.   

Seventeen percent of LGB medical students reported high levels of burnout compared to 11.1% of heterosexual students.

The efforts will be enabled by new $350,000 Racial Equity and Justice Grants that support minority-led not-for-profit organizations.

Members living with multiple chronic conditions will have an opportunity to be treated safely at home and thereby avoid hospital visits.

The pathway discovered at Michigan-based Beaumont Health allowed users to "cut in line" to schedule unauthorized appointments and circumvent current state mandates.