Google sister company Verily has nearly 1,000 volunteers working on its COVID-19 screening and testing platform as it prepares to expand to more locations, according to CNBC. 

Airbnb announced March 26 that it will house 100,000 healthcare providers, relief workers and first responders around the world free of cost.

A week after launching a COVID-19 testing program in two counties in the San Francisco Bay region, Google sister company Verily has expanded the program and ironed out some of its initial issues, the life sciences company announced March 23.

The World Health Organization launched a messaging service with Facebook-owned WhatsApp on March 20 allowing the app's billions of users to directly message the global health organization for news and information about COVID-19.

Only a few hours after its launch, a Google-affiliated website designed to screen patients online for coronavirus and direct them to the appropriate care was overwhelmed by demand, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Google sister company Verily will begin offering a COVID-19 testing pilot program, including online screening and new testing locations, developed in partnership with the California governor's office and federal, state and local public health authorities.

Lyft and LogistiCare, a provider of technology to manage nonemergency medical transportation, have renewed and expanded their partnership to improve access to care for patients across the U.S.

B.well Connected Health, a startup developing software that gives patients direct access to their real-time healthcare data, closed a Series A funding backed by Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health, Appleton, Wis.-based ThedaCare and Walgreens' Well Ventures.

CVS Health added five more digital health services to its Point Solutions Management platform, through which CVS Caremark pharmacy benefit management clients can cover the costs of digital health tools for employees.

As the coronavirus continues to spread, Amazon has been on the forefront of travel restrictions and remote work. However, it has also continued to make announcements and partnerships over the past two weeks.

Solutionreach, a patient engagement software company recently launched a new artificial intelligence-powered communication platform that helps hospitals, health systems and enterprise healthcare organizations connect with patients and staff.

While most patients still use a desktop computer to pay their medical bills online, the number of individuals who tap their mobile devices to make payments has steadily increased since 2018, according to a recent Athenahealth report.

Logisticare | Circulation, a platform coordinating transportation between rideshare companies and healthcare providers, has become the fourth partner to join Sutter Health | Aetna's tech-enabled initiative to deliver primary care to patients at any time or place.

With Generation Z — commonly defined as those born between 1995 and 2012 — now flooding into the workforce, businesses, managers and their potential coworkers must be prepared for the changes these digital natives will usher into the workplace, the economy and society as a whole.

The American Medical Association recently released a digital playbook to help physician practices navigate challenges associated with giving patients access to their electronic health information.

OhMD is now offering hospitals and health systems a free version of its HIPAA-compliant patient communication platform to limit community spread of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding a project that will soon provide patients who have symptoms of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, with home-testing kits that will provide results within two days, The Seattle Times reports.

More than two-thirds of consumers prefer scheduling appointments by text message rather than by email (25 percent) or phone (5 percent), and 53 percent would like to receive customer service and support via text, according to a new report.

Uber Health, the nonemergency medical transportation service launched by rideshare service Uber in 2018, has updated its platform to be more accessible to patients, regardless of their use of and comfort with technology, per a March 4 announcement.

Several hospitals and health systems have rolled out new mobile applications for wayfinding and patient communication in the first two months of 2020.