Population Health

Here's a look at how Johns Hopkins' COVID-19 website was created and how it grew visits to more than 38 million in seven months.

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.

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

Standardized datasets have required an acceleration of digital transformation and, in particular, interoperable standards, says Monica Jones, chief data officer for Health Data Research UK.

The ridesharing company responded to new demands in 2020, says Megan Callahan, vice president of healthcare at Lyft.

Professor Claudia Pagliari, director of global eHealth at the University of Edinburgh, says sharing data with local public health authorities will help us manage future pandemics more effectively, while also reducing health inequalities.

Arcadia CMO Dr. Rich Parker says the company sends more than 1 million text messages in a frictionless outreach to close gaps in care.

Deep Dive: Although COVID-19 will remain a challenge in 2021, the vaccines raise hope that progress is being made in the battle with the coronavirus and countries are racing toward the light at the end of the tunnel.