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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Scanwell Health Launches Clinical-Grade Rapid At-Home COVID-19 Test Kits
What You Should Know:
- Scanwell Health announced the first clinical-grade rapid at-home test for COVID-19.
- Scanwell secures exclusive rights to license China FDA-cleared rapid serology test from INNOVITA; Partners with nationwide telehealth provider Lemonaid Health to distribute smartphone-enabled tests to individuals in the U.S.
- After a quick screening, eligible patients are sent a kit via next-business-day delivery. Patients take the test at home and
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AWS Launches $20M Initiative to Accelerate COVID-19 Diagnostics, Research, and Testing
What You Should Know:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced its commitment of $20 million and the launch of the Diagnostic Development Initiative to support customers who are working to bring better, more accurate, diagnostics solutions to market faster and promote better collaboration across organizations.
- With the assistance of AWS, customers can accelerate diagnostic research, innovation, and development to speed our collective understanding and detection of COVID-19 and other
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