In 2019, Shuhan He, MD and Jenny 8 Lee teamed up with members of Emojination to submit the anatomical heart and lung emoji.
Anatomical Heart 🫀 and Anatomical Lung 🫁 were approved as part of Unicode 13.0 in 2020 and added to Emoji 13.0 in 2020.
In September 2021, Dr. He published a piece in JAMA entitled Emoji for the Medical Community describing how Emoji could further digital health in medicine.
Since then, a team of physicians, medical societies, and patient advocacy organizations have come together to advocate for a more comprehensive set of medical Emoji, believing that there could be significant benefits for patients.