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.