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Scripps Launches App-Based Study Using Wearable Data to Predict Virus Outbreaks

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Scripps Launches App-Based Study Using Wearable Data to Predict Virus Outbreaks

What You Should Know: - The Scripps Research Translational Institute launched DETECT, an app-based research study that will analyze wearable data shared by users with the goal of being able to more quickly detect fast-spreading viral illnesses, like flu and coronavirus.  - Early detection is critical for effective public health response to infectious disease outbreaks and for improving treatments. DETECT connects with smartwatches and activity trackers, including Fitbit devices,
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Uniper Launches Cross-Platform Service to Address Social Isolation for Older Adults

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Uniper Launches Cross-Platform Service to Address Social Isolation for Older Adults

What You Should Know: - Uniper-Care Technologies announced its new cross-platform service that enables older adults and at-risk individuals in isolation to connect and engage with healthcare professionals, access live and interactive health and wellness programs, and communicate with family and friends.  - The service is designed to help the at-risk, older adult population and healthcare systems cope and adhere with the new world order of extensive social isolation due to the
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Philips Ramps Up Production of Critical Health Tech Products in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

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Philips Ramps Up Production of Critical Health Tech Products in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic.

What You Should Know: - The most needed products are patient vital signs monitors and portable ventilators and medical consumables for non-invasive and invasive ventilation to treat a broad range of respiratory conditions. - Philips’ efforts to increase the production include hiring additional manufacturing employees and shifting current employees to support increased demand immediately Royal Philips announced that it is increasing the production of
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Study: AI-Powered Solution Achieves High Accuracy for Detecting COVID-19 on CT

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Study AI-Powered Solution Achieves High Accuracy for Detecting COVID-19 on CT

What You Should Know: - New RADLogics research that validates the performance of an AI-powered CT image analysis solution that is designed to automatically and accurately detect COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and quantify the disease burden in affected patients. - The study found that the CT image analysis algorithm – developed from multiple international datasets – was able to differentiate 157 patients with and without COVID-19 with a 0.996 AUC (plus, 98.2 percent sensitivity and 92.2 percent
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New COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Map Uses Social Determinants of Health to Identify Populations At Greater Risk

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New COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Map Uses Social Determinants of Health to Identify Populations At Greater Risk

What You Should Know: - Jvion Launches COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Map to identify the social determinants of health (SDOH) that put populations at greater risk, informing community planning and resource allocation to proactively mitigate the risk to vulnerable populations. - The Community Vulnerability Map allows users to search and drill down into communities to view populations most vulnerable for severe outcomes if infected with a COVID-like virus and the socioeconomic
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AMA Launches Virtual Panel Discussion on Telemedicine Amid COVID-19

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6 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Considerations for Telehealth Providers

What You Should Know: - The American Medical Association launches a virtual panel discussion today focused on telemedicine and COVID-19. - The discussion is hosted by the AMA’s Physician Innovation Network (PIN), an online networking community of physicians, digital health companies and entrepreneurs. The American Medical Association is helping mobilize a dramatic increase in the nation’s telemedicine capacity through its advocacy on Medicare policy changes
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Amazon, Epic, Mayo Clinic, Intermountain, Others Form COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition

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Amazon, Epic, Mayo Clinic, Intermountain, Others Form COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition

What You Should Know: The COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition is a collaborative private-industry response to the novel coronavirus. Its mission is to save lives by providing real-time learning to preserve healthcare delivery and protect U.S. populations. Coalition partners include Arcadia.io, athenahealth, Buoy Health, the CommonWell Health Alliance, Epic, HCA Healthcare, Intermountain Healthcare, LabCorp, Leavitt Partners, MassChallenge, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, MITRE, Rush
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Validic Launches Real-Time, COVID-19 Remote Symptom Monitoring Tool

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Validic Launches Real-Time, COVID-19 Remote Symptom Monitoring Tool

What You Should Know: - Validic launches COVID-19 rapid deployment remote monitoring tool for employers and healthcare organizations to monitor employees, patients, and other individuals at scale for emerging symptoms of COVID-19. - COVID-19 Home Monitoring tracks a person’s body temperature, difficulty breathing, cough frequency, and oxygen saturation. - Triggered alerts will notify program administrators or clinicians as a person’s symptoms worsen, improve, or remain static – or as
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White House, IBM Partner to Fight COVID-19 Using Supercomputers

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White House, IBM Partner to Fight COVID-19 Using Supercomputers

What You Should Know: - The White House Office of Science and Technology and the U.S. Department of Energy teams up with IBM, and others to fight the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) using supercomputers. - The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium pooling supercomputing capacity to help researchers everywhere better understand COVID-19, its treatments, and potential cures. - These high-performance computing systems allow researchers to run very large numbers of
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Microsoft, Adaptive, Providence Partner to Decode COVID-19 Immune Response

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To generate immune response data, Adaptive will open enrollment in April to collect de-identified blood samples, using a LabCorp-enabled mobile phlebotomy service, from individuals diagnosed with or recovered from COVID-19 in a virtual clinical trial managed by Covance. Immune cell receptors from these blood samples will be sequenced using Illumina platform technology and mapped to SARS-CoV-2-specific antigens that will have been confirmed by Adaptive’s proprietary immune medicine platform to induce an immune response. The immune response signature found from the initial discovery work and the initial set of samples will be uploaded to the open data access portal. Leveraging Microsoft’s hyperscale machine learning capabilities and the Azure cloud platform, the accuracy of the immune response signature will be continuously improved and updated online in real time as more trial samples are sequenced from the study. Providence to Serve as Clinical Collaborator To expedite the development and relevance of the immune response signature across the global population, the companies are seeking additional participation from institutions and research groups around the world to contribute blood samples to this open data initiative. Providence, a large health system with 51 hospitals, including the one near Seattle that treated the first U.S. COVID-19 patient, is an initial clinical collaborator. “The solution to COVID-19 is not likely going to come from one person, one company or one country. This is a global issue, and it will be a global effort to solve it,” said Peter Lee, corporate vice president, AI and Research, Microsoft. “Making critical information about the immune response accessible to the broader research community will help advance ongoing and new efforts to solve this global public health crisis, and we can accomplish this goal through our proven TCR-Antigen mapping partnership with Adaptive.” Timing & Enrollment Timing and enrollment details about the upcoming study and the open data access portal will be coming soon. Institutions or collaborators interested in contributing blood samples can direct inquiries to COVID19ImmuneResponse@adaptivebiotech.com.

What You Should Know: - Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies have expanded their partnership to map the human immune response to COVID-19 and advance our understanding of the disease. - Data from this study will be made available through an open-access portal to help researchers, public health organizations and industry improve diagnostics, help triage patients based on the immune response to the disease, and inform vaccine discovery for COVID-19. - Other industry leaders including
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