What You Need to Know:
- FCC begins approving funding to boost telehealth during coronavirus pandemic just three days after the opening of the application window.
- Congress appropriated $200 million for the FCC to support health care providers’ use of telehealth services during this national emergency.
The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau today approved six funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Healthcare providers in some of the
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Biofourmis Acquires Digital Therapeutics Oncology Startup Gaido Health
What You Should Know:
- Boston-based digital therapeutics startup Biofourmis acquires LA-based Gaido Health from Takeda Pharmaceuticals, in a strategic deal that expands Biofourmis’ portfolio in the oncology space.
- Gaido Health—a digital therapeutics company focused on the oncology market—was part of Takeda Digital Ventures, Takeda’s corporate technology investment and incubation arm.
- With Gaido Health’s and Biofourmis’ dual focus on remote monitoring with wearables
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OnScale Launches ‘Digital Twins’ of Lungs to Improve COVID-19 Patients Outcomes
What You Should Know:
- OnScale announced the kickoff of the Project BreatheEasy by leveraging massively scalable cloud bioengineering simulation and AI to create “Digital Twins” of the lungs of COVID-19 patients.
- The goal of the project is to optimize the utilization of limited ventilator and respiratory equipment and improve patient outcomes.
- OnScale is currently testing the solution with medical experts and is actively seeking additional partners and advisors.
OnScale, a
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Central, Searchable Repository for all COVID-19 Clinical Trials Launches
What You Need to Know:
- Inato unveils central, searchable repository for all COVID-19 clinical trials designed to support clinical researchers, physicians, and biopharma organizations.
- By centralizing all clinical studies being conducted worldwide and updating trial trends with new information from public registries and aggregators daily, Inato seeks to optimize COVID-19 clinical trial resource allocation and help address any unmet needs as quickly as possible.
Paris-based (and
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IntegriChain Acquires Cumberland’s Life Sciences Division
What You Should Know:
- IntegriChain acquires Cumberland’s Life Sciences division to create life sciences' only comprehensive data and business process platform for market access and commercialization.
- Together, the analytics, applications, managed services and expert advisory services powers 220+ Life Sciences manufacturers' operations and harness the value of their channel, patient and payer data.
IntegriChain, a leading Life Sciences data, and managed services company that
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One Drop Acquires Sano’s Continuous Glucose Sensing Platform
What You Should Know:
- One Drop has acquired all the assets and intellectual property of Sano Intelligence, Inc. which include Sano's continuous glucose sensing platform.
- One Drop will leverage the acquired assets, including silicon-sensing production infrastructure, to design, produce, and commercialize a painless, silicon-based continuous health sensing platform for use across multiple conditions.
One Drop, a New York
City-based provider of digital care solutions for people
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Intermountain Deploys COVID-19 Screener and Emergency Response Solution
What You Should Know:
GYANT announced that Intermountain Healthcare is leveraging
its COVID-19 Screener and Emergency Response Assistant to support patients
during this frightening and uncertain time.
GYANT’s COVID-19 assistant is allowing Intermountain
Healthcare to screen patients for symptoms and risk factors, as many people
aren’t sure if they should be tested for the COVID-19 virus.
Based on the patients’ responses, the assistant directs patients
to the
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Apple, Google Partner on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Tech: 5 things to Know
What You Should Know:
- Apple and Google announce a joint partnership to enable the use of Bluetooth-enabled contact tracing technology to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus.
- Apple and Google will be launching a comprehensive solution that includes application programming interfaces (APIs) and operating system-level technology to assist in enabling contact tracing.
Apple and Google announce a joint partnership to
enable the use of Bluetooth
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COVID-19 Death Rates: Which States are Really Flattening the Curve?
What You Should Know:
- MDmetrix’s new control charts project daily deaths from COVID-19 nationally and by state, revealing which states are flattening the “daily deaths” curve.
- Currently, none of the states with the highest COVID-related death rates—including Washington State, New Jersey, New York, California, Michigan or Louisiana—have flattened the curve.
Whether you’re a health system executive, a grocery store
worker, or a concerned parent, Americans everywhere see the
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Medtronic Awarded Emergency Authorization for Compact Ventilator to Support COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- The company received authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to offer the PB560 ventilator in the U.S. through the agency’s Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) authority.
- Lightweight and compact, the Puritan Bennett™ 560 portable ventilator helps enable patients to live with greater independence while providing caregivers with the peace of mind that comes with a reliable and trusted ventilation system with long battery life.
Medtronic
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