MobiHealthNews

Also: 1Drop's portable diagnostics tackle the final frontier; AT&T, partners look to streamline patient check-in. 

Also: Meru inks commercial agreement with dacadoo and UCSF teams up with Proscia. 

Also: Yale School of Medicine cuts deal to explore VR for cancer patients; UPMC Health Plan rolls out VirtualHealth's HELIOS platform.

Also: Level Ex's CTO comes from Amazon, Microsoft; Liva Healthcare grabs CCO to drive new partnerships.

Also: EYE-SYNC inks deal with Symmetry Physical Therapy of Austin and Medtronic acquires Digital Surgery. 

Also: Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals deployed LifeLink's text chatbot; Advantia Health inks deal with West Virginia's WIC program. 

In this grab-bag episode of HIMSSCast, Laura Lovett, an editor at MobiHealthNews, chats with host Jonah Comstock about three recent in-person reporting experiences here in the Boston area, where MobiHealthNews is based. They included an office visit to the Division of Digital Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Patient Safety in a Digital World symposium held at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the MassChallenge Health Tech Accelerator's Opening Night. Articles referenced in today's episode: As digital becomes the new norm in healthcare, how is patient safety being considered? In-depth: Beth Israel's digital psychiatry division looks to integrate passive, active phone data into patient care  

Also: Ancestory.com cuts 6% of its workforce; NPJ Digital Medicine review outlines challenges holding digital health back. 

From an investing keynote by Alex Rodriguez to scores of digital health startup panels, HIMSS20 has a lot to choose from.