The Weekly Roundup is updated every Friday.
Topics
FDA authorizes at-home COVID-19 tests from Amazon, Roche, Siemens. AMA calls CDC's new quarantine guidelines confusing and counterproductive. White House requires insurers to cover at-home COVID-19 testing costs. ONC ISA Reference Edition for 2022 includes HL7-enabled help for CDC COVID-19 reporting.
New York requiring COVID-19 boosters for healthcare workers. What is to blame for clinicians spending even more time in the EHR during COVID-19? CIO looks at how 2021 helps shape 2022 strategies.
How a health system spun up a virtual ICU – just in time for COVID-19. What's next for telehealth after COVID-19? Clinic boosts patient-provider satisfaction and provider efficiency with telehealth.
Exploring virtual care's role in combating the youth mental health crisis. How health tech response to COVID-19 affects women's digital health. Cue Health to develop Omicron genotyping COVID-19 test.
Regions
As the omicron variant spreads across Europe, leaders are tightening COVID restrictions and bringing in new rules to increase vaccination uptake. As result, several EU nations are set to mandate vaccination for COVID passes.
New Zealand's Ministry of Health has provided more options for citizens to get their COVID-19 travel passes in response to "unprecedented" demand for assistance in generating the My Vaccine Pass.
A study finds that pharmacists' active involvement is needed to bolster telepharmacy, which was largely driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Japan's rural communities.
