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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Philips, U.S. Government Partner to Ramp-Up Ventilator Production to Combat COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know:
Philips and the U.S. government collaborate on ramping up ventilator production to combat COVID-19 pandemic with plans to double the production by May 2020.
In the first three months of this year, Philips already delivered several thousand ventilators to U.S. hospitals.
As a result of its production ramp-up, Philips was able to deliver an additional batch of ventilators to one of New York’s hospitals, to help provide immediate relief to the surge of COVID-19
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COVID-19 Forecast Dashboard Predicts Peak Hospital Admissions by County Level
What You Should Know:
- Today, Hospital IQ launched the COVID-19 Regional Forecast Dashboard, a free tool to help hospitals plan for the upcoming surge of COVID-19 patients.
- The Dashboard provides visibility to the county-level resource needs based on precise predictions of peak hospital admissions, bed capacity, and ventilators.
- The COVID-19 Regional Forecast Dashboard automatically aggregates data from the IHME COVID-19 model, as well as other trusted sources (COVID
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Tyto Care Lands $50M for Telehealth Platform for On-Demand, Remote Medical Examinations
What You Should Know:
- Tyto Care raises $50M in an oversubscribed round co-led by Insight Partners to expand its modular device and telehealth platform for on-demand, remote medical examinations.
- The growth round doubles the telehealth company’s total funding after serving over 100 health organizations, thousands of clinicians, and hundreds of thousands of patients in 2019.
Tyto Care, the healthcare industry’s first all-in-one modular device and telehealth platform for
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Intel Launches $50M Pandemic Response Technology Initiative to Combat Coronavirus
What You Should Know:
- Intel pledges an additional $50 million in a pandemic response technology initiative to combat the coronavirus through accelerating access to technology at the point of patient care.
- Intel is committed to accelerating access to technology that can combat the current COVID-19 pandemic and enable new technology and the scientific discovery that better prepares society for future crises.
Intel is pledging an additional $50 million in a pandemic response
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Jefferson Health Deploys EHR-Integrated COVID-19 Chatbot for Screening and Intake
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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