What You Should Know:
- Artificial intelligence algorithms can predict outcomes
of COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms in emergency rooms, according to recent
research findings published in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence journal.
- Researchers trained the algorithm from data on 338
positive COVID-19 patients between the ages of 21 and 50 by using diverse
patient data from emergency departments within Mount Sinai Health System
hospitals (The Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, Mount
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How Hackers Are Targeting COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Chains – Q/A
With the US and other major countries poised to begin national
distribution of multiple FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines, the cybersecurity threats
to secure COVID19
vaccine distribution is imminent. Earlier this month, IBM released a report on malicious cyber actors targeting
the COVID-19 cold chain—an integral part of delivering and storing a vaccine at
safe temperatures.
Impersonating a biomedical company, cyber actors are sending phishing and spear-phishing emails to executives and global
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M&A: Cerner to Acquire Health Division of Kantar for $375M in Cash
What You Should Know:
- Cerner announces it will acquire Kantar Health, a leading data, analytics, and real-world evidence and commercial research consultancy serving the life science and health care industry.
- This acquisition is expected to allow Cerner’s Learning
Health Network client consortium and health systems with more opportunities to
directly engage with life sciences for funded research studies. The acquisition
is expected to close during the first half of
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FDA Authorizes First Fully Over the Counter COVID-19 Home Test
What You Should Know:
- FDA grants Emergency Use Authorization for Ellume
COVID-19 Home Test for non-prescription home use in symptomatic and
asymptomatic individuals
- The first fully over-the-counter COVID-19 Home Test
demonstrated 96% accuracy in a multi-site US clinical study of both adults and
children 2 years and above
- Ellume is ramping up manufacture, with production on
track for over 100,000 tests per day in January 2021
Ellume, a
digital diagnostics announced its rapid,
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Abbott Receives CE Mark for its COVID-19 IgG Quantitative Antibody Blood Test
What You Should Know:
- Abbott Receives CE Mark for its COVID-19 IgG Quantitative Antibody Blood Test that specifically detects levels of IgG antibodies that attach to the virus’ spike protein, which can be helpful to evaluate a person's immune response to vaccines.
- Abbott plans to submit its test for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorization soon.
Abbott, today
announced it received CE Mark for its new quantitative SARS-CoV-2 IgG
(Immunoglobulin G)
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Mayo Clinic Researchers to Validate Interoperability of Encrypted Algorithms and Training on Encrypted Data
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic researchers are collaborating with TripleBlind on next generation algorithm sharing and training on encrypted data.
- TripleBlind’s solution functions as the innovative data
encryption conduit that keeps the data and intellectual property in the algorithm
secure.
TripleBlind announced
today it is collaborating with Mayo Clinic researchers
who will use TripleBlind tools to validate interoperability
of encrypted
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Microsoft Deploys COVID-19 Vaccine Management Platform
What You Should Know:
- Microsoft launches a COVID-19 vaccine management platform with partners Accenture and Avanade, EY, and Mazik Global to help government and healthcare customers provide fair and equitable vaccine distribution, administration, and monitoring of vaccine delivery.
- Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) has deployed
over 230 emergency COVID-19 response missions globally since the pandemic began
in March, including recent engagements to ensure the equitable, secure
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DispatchHealth Launches New Clinic Without Walls for Enhanced Virtual Visits to MultiCare Patients
What You Should Know:
- DispatchHealth launches Clinic Without Walls, a new service line offering patients a telemedicine visit with in-person assistance for more complex medical visits.
- The initial service line will be available in a pilot to MultiCare patients in the Tacoma and Spokane areas in an effort to its senior patients' alternative visits during the pandemic.
DispatchHealth, a provider of in-home high-acuity medical care, today announced
the launch of Clinic Without
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M&A: HealthStream Acquires myClinicalExchange for $4.5M in Cash
What You Should Know:
- HealthStream acquires substantially all of the assets
of myClinicalExchange LLC, for approximately
$4.5 million in cash.
- For the first time, HealthStream’s footprint expands to
include the healthcare workforce before graduation, providing new opportunities
to make the transition-to-practice by medical, nursing, and allied healthcare
students more seamless.
HealthStream, a Nashville,
TN-based provider of workforce and provider solutions for the
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Elation Health Nabs $40M for Clinical-First Solution to Power Independent Primary Care
What You Should Know:
- Elation Health, which provides an easy-to-use and affordable clinical technology platform for more than 14,000 independent primary care clinicians serving 7 million patients - including an EHR raises $40M in Series C funding from Al Gore's sustainable investment firm, Generation Investment Management.
- Elation’s API-enabled platform also allows
organizations to transform the patient and provider experience and implement
their own models of data-driven,
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