What You Should Know:
- OnScale announced the kickoff of the Project BreatheEasy by leveraging massively scalable cloud bioengineering simulation and AI to create “Digital Twins” of the lungs of COVID-19 patients.
- The goal of the project is to optimize the utilization of limited ventilator and respiratory equipment and improve patient outcomes.
- OnScale is currently testing the solution with medical experts and is actively seeking additional partners and advisors.
OnScale, a
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Central, Searchable Repository for all COVID-19 Clinical Trials Launches
What You Need to Know:
- Inato unveils central, searchable repository for all COVID-19 clinical trials designed to support clinical researchers, physicians, and biopharma organizations.
- By centralizing all clinical studies being conducted worldwide and updating trial trends with new information from public registries and aggregators daily, Inato seeks to optimize COVID-19 clinical trial resource allocation and help address any unmet needs as quickly as possible.
Paris-based (and
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IntegriChain Acquires Cumberland’s Life Sciences Division
What You Should Know:
- IntegriChain acquires Cumberland’s Life Sciences division to create life sciences' only comprehensive data and business process platform for market access and commercialization.
- Together, the analytics, applications, managed services and expert advisory services powers 220+ Life Sciences manufacturers' operations and harness the value of their channel, patient and payer data.
IntegriChain, a leading Life Sciences data, and managed services company that
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One Drop Acquires Sano’s Continuous Glucose Sensing Platform
What You Should Know:
- One Drop has acquired all the assets and intellectual property of Sano Intelligence, Inc. which include Sano's continuous glucose sensing platform.
- One Drop will leverage the acquired assets, including silicon-sensing production infrastructure, to design, produce, and commercialize a painless, silicon-based continuous health sensing platform for use across multiple conditions.
One Drop, a New York
City-based provider of digital care solutions for people
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Intermountain Deploys COVID-19 Screener and Emergency Response Solution
What You Should Know:
GYANT announced that Intermountain Healthcare is leveraging
its COVID-19 Screener and Emergency Response Assistant to support patients
during this frightening and uncertain time.
GYANT’s COVID-19 assistant is allowing Intermountain
Healthcare to screen patients for symptoms and risk factors, as many people
aren’t sure if they should be tested for the COVID-19 virus.
Based on the patients’ responses, the assistant directs patients
to the
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Apple, Google Partner on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Tech: 5 things to Know
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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