What You Should Know:
- The FDA has provided Emergency Use Authorization for a 24-hour, Saliva Test for COVID-19, available now to clinics, hospitals, and patients.
- In light of recent complications with and warnings for new tests, here is a quick list of information on the validated test and how it is different from existing testing and other alternatives in development:
- The saliva-based test for COVID-19 has been validated and proven as a consistent sample method.
- FDA
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Mayo Clinic in Florida Uses Autonomous Vehicles to Transport COVID-19 Test Samples
What You Should Know:
The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA), Beep
Inc. and NAVYA partner with Mayo Clinic to use autonomous vehicles to safely
transport COVID-19 samples on their Jacksonville Campus.
Since March 30th, up to four autonomous
vehicles began operating along an initial route, in full autonomous mode
without attendants or other people onboard, to transport COVID-19 tests from a
drive-thru testing site to a processing laboratory on Mayo Clinic campus.
The
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COVID-19 Patient Registry Launches to Monitor Symptomatic and Asymptomatic COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- Recruitment for the first comprehensive COVID-19 national patient registry opens today for symptomatic and asymptomatic patients in the six-months following diagnosis.
- Patient data will be collected remotely for a clinical study using a blood test and a new mobile app, Obvio-19 from ObvioHealth.
ObvioHealth, a digital research company, announces the launch of a COVID-19 patient registry named Obvio-19 to monitor COVID-19 prevalence, symptoms and immune
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Philips Enables Providers to Remotely Screen and Monitor Patients with COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Philips provides healthcare institutions with telehealth solution to process high volume coronavirus-related healthcare requests via online screening and supports healthcare providers in the use of external call centers to offer the correct care to patients
- If medically justified, patients infected with COVID-19 can be remotely monitored via automated questionnaires about their home situation and state of health
Royal Philips announced
that it can help
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Puerto Rico’s First Home Delivery Pharmacy Launches During COVID-19 Crisis
What You Need to Know:
- Pharmacy benefits manager Abarca and Triple-S Salud announced the launch of Triple-S en Casa, Puerto Rico’s first prescription home delivery program during the COVID-19 crisis.
- Developed in partnership with one of the Island's largest health plans and pharmacy networks, Triple-S en Casa lets consumers manage and order their prescriptions through an easy-to-use mobile app--and have them delivered by a local pharmacy.
Pharmacy benefits manager Abarca and
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Olive Lands $51M to Power AI-Powered Digital Employee Platform
What You Should Know:
- Olive, a company automates healthcare’s most robotic processes raises $51M in funding led by General Catalyst.
- Olive automates healthcare’s most costly, high-volume tasks using the building blocks of artificial intelligence: robotic process automation, computer vision, and machine learning.
- Working alongside healthcare employees, Olive is trained to think cognitively and make complex decisions faster, and more accurately than human employees
Olive,
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AristaMD Raises $18M to Expand eConsults Platform to Improve Patient Outcomes
What You Should Know:
- AristaMD has raised $18 million in Series B led by Cigna Ventures and MemorialCare Innovation Fund (MCIF), with participation from Avalon Ventures, CU Healthcare Innovation Fund and Stanford Health Care.
- Now more than ever, eConsults are a crucial resource in providing fast, efficient, HIPAA-compliant, and fully scalable access to specialists.
- Annually there are around 20 million routine clinical
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NovuHealth Launches COVID-19 Rapid Response Engagement Solution
What You Should Know:
- NovuHealth has released a new rapid response engagement solution to help plans communicate vital information and plan resources with members, including at-risk populations for increased communication, such as seniors, mom-and-baby populations, members with pre-existing conditions, and those living in regional hot spots.
- Health plans are in a unique position to connect their members with the information, resources, and benefits they need. However, many health
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Providence Uses Remote Patient Monitoring For 700+ COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- Providence is monitoring patients suffering from COVID-19 symptoms using Xealth’s digital health platform to deliver Twistle’s care automation and remote patient monitoring platform.
- So far, more than 700 positive or presumptive positive COVID-19 patients are already being helped with this solution at home, keeping patients safe while reducing additional stress on hospitals, emergency rooms, and front-line health care teams.
- Patients who are exhibiting
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‘Pandemic Drone’ Could Detect Virus Symptoms Like COVID-19 in Crowds
What You Should Know:
- A drone to remotely detect people in crowds with infectious respiratory conditions such as COVID-19 is being developed by the University of South Australia researchers in partnership with a Canadian tech company.
- Dubbed the ‘pandemic drone’ by researchers, the UAV will be fitted with a specialized sensor and computer vision system that can monitor temperature, heart and respiratory rates to detect people sneezing and coughing in crowds, offices,
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