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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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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FDA Alerts Public on Accuracy Issues with Abbott’s Rapid COVID-19 Tests
What You Should Know:
- FDA issues alert about accuracy concerns with Abbott’s ID Now COVID-19 rapid point-of-care tests that could return false negative results.
- The FDA reports it is sharing early information available about potential inaccurate results in the spirit of transparency and is working with Abbott to analyze the information gathered to date.
On late Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an alert to the public about potential inaccurate
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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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AHA Launches COVID-19 Data Challenge to Address Health Disparities Among African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans in Rural Areas
What You Need to Know:
- American Heart Association, Hitachi Vantara and BurstIQ launch COVID-19 Data Challenge to bring global COVID-19 datasets to researchers and clinicians to examine the relationship with other health conditions and health disparities.
- Each participant of the challenge will be provided a free, HIPPA compliant and FedRAMP certified, secure Precision Medicine Platform (PMP) workspace to conduct analyses.
The American Heart Association, the
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UCSF and AWS Collaborate on 2 COVID-19 Genome Sequencing Projects
What You Should Know:
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the University of
California, San Francisco (UCSF) collaborate on two projects
involving sequencing the genomes of the viruses infecting hundreds of
COVID-19 patients in the Bay Area using CRISPR gene-technology in a clinical
research study.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
announced this week it has offered their support and donated service credits
provided by the AWS Diagnostic
Development Initiative for
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SubjectWell Launches Patient Registry of 10k+ Patients for COVID-19 Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- SubjectWell launches a patient registry list of 10,000 individuals in the US interested in participating in COVID-19 clinical trials and research.
- The new COVID-19 patient registry will accelerate the patient recruitment process for COVID-19 research, giving researchers access to interested individuals who could randomize for various types of trials, whether they are healthy volunteers with no previous exposure to COVID-19, currently sick with the virus, or who
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Banner Health Launches Virtual Waiting Room Across Network
What You Should Know:
- Banner Health deploys a first-of-its-kind virtual waiting room using LifeLink’s mobile chatbot technology to interact with Banner patients for both in-person and telehealth appointments.
- Conversational mobile technology supports COVID-19 social distancing guidelines and allows patients to safely access care across a network of 1500 physicians.
Banner Health, one of the largest nonprofit health care systems in the country, today announced the successful
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COVID-19 and Its Global Impact on Primary Care Virtual Consultations
Last week saw Teladoc Health release its 1Q20 financial results giving the US telehealth industry a first glimpse of how COVID-19 is impacting the ambulatory virtual care market. Discussion around the crisis and its impact on telehealth has been rife since early March and the data published by Teladoc Health highlights that this was justified.
The company reported that the number of virtual care consults in the quarter had passed the 2 million mark, up approximately 60% from the 1.24M
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FDA Grants Eko Emergency Use Authorization for Low Ejection Fraction AI
What You Should Know:
- The FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization to Eko for an ECG-based algorithm that screens for low ejection fraction, as part of an assessment of cardiac complications and co-morbidities associated with COVID-19.
- This ECG-based deep learning algorithm, developed on a large clinical dataset in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic, can help efficiently identify signs of possible heart failure in patients.
Eko, a digital health
company building
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