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This week's top stories include Amwell snapping up digital mental health company SilverCloud Health and virtual care company Conversa Health, the AMA backing vaccine mandates for healthcare workers and the VA suspending Cerner EHR rollouts.

Also, former NHSX digital director, Sam Shah joins Freuds Health & Behaviour Change Unit. 

The mobile health platform serves as an "integrated virtual clinic".

Also, an Australian software startup will incorporate its scheduling solution into the American telehealth platform FaceMyDoc.

Health fund members of four Australian insurance firms can now make claims at any HICAPS terminal in the country by tapping their iPhone or Apple smartwatch.

In an upcoming HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital Session, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian will discuss where healthcare tech will go from here.   

The app was able to make suggestions about exercises for patients with osteoarthritis of the knee or hip. 

There needs to be collaboration between the healthcare professional and the patient as opposed to the "carwash model" of healthcare, says Medisafe CMO Dr. Danny Sands.

The company hopes this study will be a stepping stone towards regulatory approval of its product.   

HIMSS Media Editor in Chief Jonah Comstock and KLAS' Dan Czech walk through a checklist for telehealth software success.