Consumer

At an UpNext panel at HIMSS 21 Digital, health leaders at Facebook, YouTube and CBS News discussed the lessons learned from a year and a half of COVID-19.

“I think those APIs for consumers will be as transformative as APIs have been for music, in printing, in travel, in banking and retail,” said Dr. Don Rucker, former ONC National Coordinator for Health IT, at a HIMSS21 lightning session.

The company noted that the network of these accounts operated in Russia.

The new collaboration will let users track food and water intake, and monitor their activity. 

Zoom’s mobile browser client would allow patients to simply click a link sent from their providers to join a telehealth appointment, nixing the need to download an app.

What comes after the pandemic? Accolade CMO Dr. Shantanu Nundy and Pfizer's senior director for clinical informatics, Saira Haque, discuss how COVID-19 has changed partnerships between players in the healthcare industry and what they can learn.

As the delta variant spreads in the U.S., Yelp will let businesses share information on vaccination requirements for customers and whether staff are vaccinated.

KX Jin, Dr. Garth Graham and Darius Walker will join HIMSS Media's Jonah Comstock for a virtual panel discussion as part of UpNext.

More than 90,000 digital health apps were released last year – an average of 250 per day – according to the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science's 2021 trends report.

The platform, called Ro Mind, lets users fill out an assessment and then consult with a clinician.