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The challenge, which officially launches in January 2021, was announced this week during HIMSS’ Health Equity Week.

The yet-to-be-named programme reportedly “leverages machine learning to optimise a clinical trial’s chances of success” through the analysis of factors such as patient population recruitment and dropout rate.

The connected care platform aims to strengthen its patient centric approach and build on its delivery of online doctor's consultations.

Alliance for Better Health CEO Dr. Jacob Reider talks about the data and IT demands of coordinating social determinants of health efforts – and the imperative to serve underserved communities, where effects from the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt for a long time.

The company will provide businesses a unique QR code for each employee and a HR dashboard.

Dr. Afzal Chaudhry, director of digital and CMIO at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundations Trust in the UK, says the workforce is embracing technology to improve patient outcomes in areas such as barcode medicine and sepsis.

The Virtual Technique Guides software "supports thousands of medical procedures" across 27 surgical specialties and subspecialties, and allows participants to collaborate on training regardless of their physical location.

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