“What if…healthcare happened where we live, work, play, pray and shop, delivering the highest levels of retail experience?” I asked and answered in my book HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. The chapter called “The new retail health” began with that “what if,” and much of the book responded with the explanation of patients… Read More »
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a whole lot of digital transformation for people staying home. For digital natives, that wasn’t such an exogenous shock. For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time… Read More »
LATEST COVID-19 DEVELOPMENTS: * All direct passenger flights into Australia from India have been suspended until May 15 as the South Asian nation deals with an escalating coronavirus catastrophe. * The move will affect about 500 people due to return to Australia. * India has recorded 323,144 new cases in the past 24 hours. *… Read More »
ROME — Priests, nuns and other people living in community settings are among the vaccination priority groups permitted under Italy’s revised national rollout. The country’s Piedmont region is going a step further by opening a special vaccine center just for the leaders of religious communities. Medical personnel at the Cottolengo hospital complex in Turin are… Read More »
By Sam Wong , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool Construction workers on the site of the Wuhan Greenland Center on 24 April 2020.STR/AFP via Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 27 April All covid-19 patients discharged from Wuhan hospitals Wuhan, where the coronavirus pandemic began, has discharged the… Read More »