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DoD Awards $2.8M to Philips & BioIntelliSense to Validate Wearable for Early COVID-19 Detection

by Jasmine Pennic 12/23/2020 Leave a Comment

DoD Awards $2.8M to Philips & BioIntelliSense to Validate Wearable for Early COVID-19 Detection

What You Should Know: - Philips and BioIntelliSense has been selected by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) to receive nearly $2.8M from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to validate BioIntelliSense’s FDA-cleared BioSticker device for the early detection of COVID-19 symptoms. - Working with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, the clinical study will consist of 2,500 eligible participants with a recent, known COVID-19 exposure and/or a
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COVID-19 Exposed The True Vulnerability of Healthcare Infrastructure

by Martyn Crew, Director of Solutions Marketing at Gigamon 12/21/2020 Leave a Comment

How COVID-19 Exposed The True Vulnerability of Healthcare Infrastructure

Martyn Crew, Director of Solutions Marketing at Gigamon In 2019, 41 million patient records breached in 572 reported incidents at an average cost of $1.8 million per breach. These statistics are far from surprising with healthcare records selling for a reported average of $45 on the dark web. Unfortunately, the year 2020 aggravated these issues as COVID-19 exposed the true vulnerability of the healthcare infrastructure. Organizations not only had to manage the medical and financial impacts of
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17 Recently Launched COVID-19 Vaccine Management Solutions to Know

by Fred Pennic 12/18/2020 Leave a Comment

16 COVID-19 Predictions and Trends for 2021 Executive Roundup 12-Available-COVID-19-Vaccine-Management-Solutions-to-Know-In-Depth-1

An in-depth look at twelve recently released COVID-19 vaccine management solutions as COVID-19 vaccines are being distributed nationwide. 1. Microsoft Microsoft launches a COVID-19 vaccine management platform with partners Accenture and Avanade, EY, and Mazik Global to help government and healthcare customers provide fair and equitable vaccine distribution, administration, and monitoring of vaccine delivery. Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) has deployed over 230 emergency COVID-19
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Why Some COVID-19 Testing Protocols Aren’t What You Think

by Pawel Czech, the founder of Nex.D & GeneMe 12/18/2020 Leave a Comment

Some COVID-19 Testing Protocols Aren’t What You Think

Pawel Czech, Founder of Nex.D While countries around the world continue to flounder with regards to COVID-19 testing, everyone is wondering how national governments could get things so horribly wrong. It’s true that governments have acted incompetently, leaders can make poor judgment calls, and optimistic testing targets are rarely achieved. But the claims of various ambitious big pharma companies—about their ability to deliver on capacity and accuracy alike—have created a smokescreen for
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Vaccine Safety Expert Shares 5 COVID-19 Vaccine Facts to Protect 2021

by Dr. Noam Tau of Sheba Medical Center 12/17/2020 Leave a Comment

Vaccine Safety Expert Shares 5 COVID-19 Vaccine Facts to Protect

Dr. Noam Tau of Sheba Medical Center Now more than ever, public confidence is key. It's our job as medical professionals, the FDA's job, and public figures' job to convince the population to vaccinate by presenting the real results of studies. The current vaccine hesitancy, which might result in a large proportion of people refusing vaccination, will leave us with an ongoing global crisis, even with the best vaccines ever made. A vaccine only works if it is actually administered. Five
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AI Algorithms Can Predict Outcomes of COVID-19 Patients with Mild Symptoms in ER

by Fred Pennic 12/16/2020 Leave a Comment

AI Algorithms Can Predict Outcomes of COVID-19 Patients with Mild Symptoms in ER

What You Should Know: - Artificial intelligence algorithms can predict outcomes of COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms in emergency rooms, according to recent research findings published in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence journal. - Researchers trained the algorithm from data on 338 positive COVID-19 patients between the ages of 21 and 50 by using diverse patient data from emergency departments within Mount Sinai Health System hospitals (The Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, Mount
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How Hackers Are Targeting COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Chains – Q/A

by Fred Pennic 12/16/2020 Leave a Comment

COVID-19 Vaccine Cyber Attacks

With the US and other major countries poised to begin national distribution of multiple FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines, the cybersecurity threats to secure COVID19 vaccine distribution is imminent. Earlier this month, IBM released a report on malicious cyber actors targeting the COVID-19 cold chain—an integral part of delivering and storing a vaccine at safe temperatures. Impersonating a biomedical company, cyber actors are sending phishing and spear-phishing emails to executives and global
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FDA Authorizes First Fully Over the Counter COVID-19 Home Test

by Fred Pennic 12/16/2020 Leave a Comment

FDA Authorizes Ellume COVID-19 Home Test as First Over-the-Counter Fully At-Home Diagnostic Test

What You Should Know: - FDA grants Emergency Use Authorization for Ellume COVID-19 Home Test for non-prescription home use in symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals - The first fully over-the-counter COVID-19 Home Test demonstrated 96% accuracy in a multi-site US clinical study of both adults and children 2 years and above - Ellume is ramping up manufacture, with production on track for over 100,000 tests per day in January 2021 Ellume, a digital diagnostics announced its rapid,
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Abbott Receives CE Mark for its COVID-19 IgG Quantitative Antibody Blood Test

by Fred Pennic 12/15/2020 Leave a Comment

Abbott Receives CE Mark for its COVID-19 IgG Quantitative Antibody Blood Test

What You Should Know: - Abbott Receives CE Mark for its COVID-19 IgG Quantitative Antibody Blood Test that specifically detects levels of IgG antibodies that attach to the virus’ spike protein, which can be helpful to evaluate a person's immune response to vaccines. - Abbott plans to submit its test for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorization soon. Abbott, today announced it received CE Mark for its new quantitative SARS-CoV-2 IgG (Immunoglobulin
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Gleaning Insights for COVID-19: Why Claims and Clinical Data Matter

by Emad Rizk, M.D., President, CEO & Chairman of the Board, Cotiviti 12/15/2020 Leave a Comment

Navigating Healthcare’s Uncertain Future: Three Data-Driven Approaches for Payers

Emad Rizk, M.D., President, CEO & Chairman of the Board, Cotiviti Healthcare organizations continue to rely heavily on data analytics to try to improve COVID-19 outcomes and public health. Since the novel coronavirus became widespread in the U.S., healthcare data scientists have leveraged clinical and claims data to pinpoint which underlying conditions put patients at higher risk of complications from COVID-19. Health systems are mining clinical data to predict surges in COVID-19 cases
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