As the nation’s eyes focus on COVID-19, another healthcare crisis is unfolding out of sight. Hidden from view, millions of Americans who don’t have COVID-19 are suffering healthcare crises in their homes. These unseen individuals are facing major challenges, on multiple levels: acute, chronic, and preventive. Patients are waiting longer at home before coming to the hospital for acute illnesses like appendicitis, stroke, or heart attack. Patients with chronic diseases are not receiving
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Mount Sinai Researchers Develops AI Algorithm to Detect COVID-19 from CT Scans
What You Should Know:
- Mount Sinai researchers develop a unique artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to detect COVID-19 based on CT scans and patient data.
- The Mount Sinai team integrated data from those CT scans with the clinical information to develop an AI algorithm. It mimics the workflow a physician uses to diagnose COVID-19 and gives a final prediction of positive or negative diagnosis.
Mount Sinai researchers
are the first in the country to use
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Digital Strategies Health IT Must Prioritize During COVID-19
COVID-19 is introducing new weaknesses to an already strained healthcare system. As healthcare providers battle an increasing influx of patients and dwindling inventory – including critical personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies like masks, ventilators, and hospital beds – they are relying more heavily on their digital tools and applications than ever before.
This is an unprecedented opportunity for health IT professionals to contribute their skills and ingenuity to the COVID-19 fight.
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Omada Health Acquires Telehealth Physical Therapy Company Physera
What You Should Know
Tele-physical therapy company Physera announced that
they are joining Omada Health, a digital health company that offers
programs for chronic disease prevention and management, and mental health
support.
Through the deal, Omada adds Physera’s musculoskeletal
solution to its suite of digital care programs for the prevention and self-management
of diabetes, hypertension, and mental health.
Physera recently launched a
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American Telemedicine Association, Others Join AVIA Partner Network to Confront COVID-19
What You Should Know: - AVIA has added the American Telemedicine Association (ATA); Conifer Health Solutions, a healthcare industry leader in financial optimization and revenue enhancement; and Gensler, a global firm focused on human-centered design to the AVIA Partner Network, which also includes organizations such as HFMA, Cerner, and Deloitte.- As hospitals face extreme clinical, operational, technological, and financial challenges due to COVID-19, healthcare leaders across the country can
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Amazon Transcribe Medical Enhances Speech-to-Text Accuracy of COVID-19-Related Terms
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
is now helping accurately assess, consume and analyze information related to
COVID-19 by enhancing speech-to-text accuracy of COVID-19-related
terms with Amazon
Transcribe Medical, a machine learning service that makes it easy
to quickly create accurate transcriptions from medical consultations
between patients and physicians.
These medical speech-recognition capabilities can now help
efficiently and accurately transcribe video and audio
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Collective Health Launches COVID-19 Workplace Solution to Facilitate Safer Workforce Reentry
What You Should Know:
- Collective Health launches COVID-19 workplace solution to help businesses reduce risk and facilitate safe work reentry
- As economic pressure continues to force broader re-openings across the U.S., Collective Go includes a testing ecosystem, occupational health protocol, mobile app, and HIPAA compliant platform.
Collective Health,
a San Francisco, CA-based employee healthcare company with an integrated
technology solution, today announced the launch of
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Zebra Medical Vision Secures 5th FDA Clearance for Vertebral Compression Fractures AI Solution
What You Should Know:
- Israeli deep-learning medical imaging analytics startup Zebra-Med secures its fifth FDA clearance vertebral compression fractures AI solution for availability in the U.S.
- The AI solution will help health providers close the COVID-19-induced care gaps by identifying more patients at risk of osteoporosis, also known as the “silent killer,” costing over $52B in the U.S. alone.
- Zebra-Med is one of the first companies in the industry to provide an AI
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FDA Approves Everlywell’s COVID-19 Test Home Collection Kit Using Nasal Swabs
What You Should Know:
- FDA approves Everlywell’s COVID-19 Test Home Collection Kit under the emergency use authorization (EUA) allows an individual to self-collect a nasal sample at home using Everlywell’s authorized kit.
- The Everlywell home-collection kit is currently the only authorized COVID-19 at-home sample collection kit for use with multiple authorized COVID-19 diagnostic tests.
The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has issued emergency use authorization (EUA) to
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UnitedHealth Group, Microsoft Launches Free App That Screens Employees for COVID-19 Symptoms
What You Should Know:
UnitedHealth Group and Microsoft team up to launch ProtectWell,
a return to workplace protocol that includes a free smartphone app that screens
for COVID-19 symptoms and clears employees for daily work.
Backed by CDC guidelines and the latest clinical science,
ProtectWell provides employers a return-to-workplace framework to support the
health and safety of the workforce and workplace.
UnitedHealth Group and Microsoft Corp. have joined forces to
launch
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