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Report predicts shift away from wearables to video analytics and mobile platforms. 

Also, an update on testing in the UAE in this week's Healthcare IT News roundup.

The Kingdom’s Ministry of Health confirmed that the three devices are being used in order to protect healthcare staff from excessive exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The round-the-clock response of the NHS’s internal and external digital health community to COVID-19 has been more than impressive. But the ad hoc and rapid arrival of so many new applications also raises concerns about compliance and standardisation – and the role of the very unit that is supposed to be directing the operation.

The database will be provided to medical professionals for free through all mobile or desktop web browsers.

The staff bank represents a breakthrough for inter-trust and private-public collaboration.

Learning from the pandemic quickly, in order to take the digital health standard forward globally, was the sentiment voiced by leading stakeholders in a recent World Health Assembly virtual panel hosted by HIMSS.

The leading pharmacy brand has partnered with Population Health Management provider, TruDoc 24/7 to provide residents with “with round-the-clock” medical access.

COVID-19, otherwise known as coronavirus, has entered the lexicon as if it was always there. Everyone has an opinion. Globally the response has divided and united populations and no less so in the UK, says global digital adviser and NHS clinician Dr Sam Shah. 

The combined group will create the first integrated platform connecting patients, healthcare providers and healthcare information systems.