What You Should Know:
- Jefferson Healthcare deploys LifeLink’s new AI-powered COVID-19 chatbot - a “digital front door” for Jefferson Health patients seeking info or treatment for the virus.
- Deployed in just days, the conversational COVID-19 chatbot has unlimited capacity to pre-screen, share best protocols and even schedule priority appointments across the Jefferson Health Network
Jefferson Health, a leading academic health system in Pennsylvania and New Jersey has deployed
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Datos Health Nabs $7M to Hospital-Grade, Automated Remote Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- Israeli-based digital health startup Datos Health raises $7M in Series A funding led by Israeli venture fund Crescendo Venture Partners.
- The successful fundraising comes amid surging interest in the Datos’ versatile and robust remote patient care platform, demonstrated in its timely deployment to support leading US and Israeli healthcare providers – including Rochester Regional Health and Sheba Medical Center – to enable remote care and monitoring for home
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New AI-Based Fever Detection Cameras for Crowds Help Limit Coronavirus Spread
What You Should Know:
- Kogniz Health launches an AI-camera solution that can scan groups and crowds and detect who may have a coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms so they can be isolated.
- Starting at $10k for one single device, the solution uses specialized camera technologies and an artificial intelligence-based software platform, the solution scans crowds in real-time and identifies anyone with an elevated temperature.
- During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is critical
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Jvion Appoints Jay Deady CEO to Lead Next Stage of Growth
What You Should Know:
- Clinical AI leader Jvion names industry veteran Jay Deady as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), succeeding founder Shantanu Nigam who will transition to his new role as Executive Chairman of the Board.
- In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jay joins Jvion during a turbulent time for healthcare. As CEO, he will lead Jvion’s ongoing efforts to support hospitals and providers through the crisis.
Jvion,
a leader in clinical AI, announced
today that Jay Deady,
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Report: Americans’ Perceptions of Telehealth in the Era of COVID-19
What You Need to Know:
- Sykes conducts a survey of 2,000 adults across the U.S. to understand how Americans perceive telehealth today in the era of COVID-19 — and how this pandemic impacts how Americans will approach telemedicine in the future.
- 73% said they would consider using a telehealth service to be screened for COVID-19/
- More than one in ten respondents said they’ve already used a telehealth service for something related to COVID-19.
- 60% said the COVID-19
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FDA Approves Emergency Use Authorization for a 24-hour, Saliva Test for COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- The FDA has provided Emergency Use Authorization for a 24-hour, Saliva Test for COVID-19, available now to clinics, hospitals, and patients.
- In light of recent complications with and warnings for new tests, here is a quick list of information on the validated test and how it is different from existing testing and other alternatives in development:
- The saliva-based test for COVID-19 has been validated and proven as a consistent sample method.
- FDA
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athenahealth Launches COVID-19 Dashboards Tracking Lab Test Orders & High-Risk Patients
What You Should Know:
- athenahealth launches two real-time COVID-19 dashboards for the healthcare community that enable users to track and predict which hospitals may need more support based on the number of tests being performed and the number of people at risk of developing severe illness from COVID-19.
- athenahealth’s COVID-19 high-risk populations dashboard identifies concentrated areas of high-risk patients, enabling local hospitals and clinicians to prepare for the
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CommonSpirit Health Deploys COVID-19 Virtual Triage and Remote Monitoring Across Ambulatory Clinics
What You Should Know:
CommonSpirit deploys Notable Health’s COVID-19 Virtual Triage and Remote Monitoring solution across ambulatory clinics in Arizona, California, and Nevada, with plans to scale broadly across the CommonSpirit Health system in the coming weeks.
The aI-powered platform supports clinician assessment of a patient's risk for COVID-19 by transmitting clinical histories directly into the EMR and performing remote monitoring of at-risk patients throughout the care continuum.
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COVID-19 Patient Registry Launches to Monitor Symptomatic and Asymptomatic COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- Recruitment for the first comprehensive COVID-19 national patient registry opens today for symptomatic and asymptomatic patients in the six-months following diagnosis.
- Patient data will be collected remotely for a clinical study using a blood test and a new mobile app, Obvio-19 from ObvioHealth.
ObvioHealth, a digital research company, announces the launch of a COVID-19 patient registry named Obvio-19 to monitor COVID-19 prevalence, symptoms and immune
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Shortage of N95 Masks Top Concern for Hospitals with COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- Premier survey reveals as active COVID-19 spreads to new hotspots, hospitals should prepare for a 3X to 17X surge in supply-demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Survey respondents treating COVID-19 patients say supply shortages and burn rates for PPE were among the biggest surprises and lessons learned.
- Hospitals ranked the supply of N95 respirators as their top concern with the average respondent had 23 days of N95 inventory on
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