MobiHealth News August 12, 2021
At an UpNext panel at HIMSS 21 Digital, health leaders at Facebook, YouTube and CBS Nws discussed the lessons learned from a year and a half of COVID-19.
When social media companies like Facebook and YouTube were founded, it’s a good bet that their founders didn’t imagine themselves to be creating public health tools. But in the face of a global pandemic, it’s become obvious that that’s exactly what they created.
And as far as health leaders at these companies are concerned, that’s a good thing.
“As someone who’s been in public health for about 20 years, the idea that public health had just been in silos and institutions and government entities and now needed to be in people’s communities...