What You Should Know:
- Doctor on Demand becomes the first nationwide, telehealth provider to expand its medical services to Medicare Part B coverage in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Through Doctor On Demand, beneficiaries are now able to easily connect with a board-certified physician of their choice over secure live video from home, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Doctor On Demand,
a San Francisco, CA-based virtual care provider, announced it is the first
nationwide,
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Machine Learning Will Transform Medicine, but Only if We Use it Right
Natalie LaFranzo, Ph.D. is VP, Market Development of Cofactor Genomics
World chess champion Garry Kasparov made headlines all over the world in 1997 for something that he probably wasn’t very excited about. He lost a chess match. To a computer.
It was an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue and its victory in that New York City match marked the first time a reigning world chess champion had been defeated by a computer under tournament conditions. It was also a symbolically significant event,
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Intel, UPenn Form AI Initiative to Identify Brain Tumors via Secure Data
What You Should Know:
- To coincide with brain tumor awareness month in May, today Intel and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) announced an NIH-funded program that uses AI to identify brain tumors while protecting patient data.
- Funded by the National Institutes of Health, UPenn and these health care institutions will use Intel’s federated learning technology to produce a new AI model that is trained on the largest brain tumor dataset to
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Mount Sinai Deploys Google Nest Cameras for Nurses to Communicate & Monitor COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- Mount Sinai deploys Google Nest cameras across the system to help patients with COVID-19 that will enhance the safety of patients and staff, as well as reducing PPE demands.
- Google Nest partnered with Mount Sinai in April to pilot the console in a hospital setting as the virus reached peak levels in New York City.
The Mount Sinai
Health System has teamed up with Google Nest
to use the latest in video and audio technologies to monitor some of the
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Verily Launches COVID-19 Pathfinder for Health Systems & Hospitals
What You Need to Know:
Verily has launched COVID-19 Pathfinder-- a new set
of tools that provide on-demand access to COVID-19 information directly from a
hospital or health system website.
To help relieve the burden on care teams, Verily
has launched COVID-19
Pathfinder, a screening tool and programming template that provide
on-demand access to COVID-19
information directly from a hospital or health system website. San Joaquin General Hospital, Western
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Digital Health Contagion: How COVID-19 Accelerated The Positive Spread of Digital Solutions
Eric Jensen, Chief Product Officer at AVIA
Remember – just three short but world-changing months ago – when many of us were at the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. The date was January 13th, 2020. Coronavirus was a problem in China, of vague interest – perhaps like SARS, unlikely to have a big impact in the U.S. Our community of healthcare executives, investors, and entrepreneurs were once again gathering in San Francisco. And the adoption of digital health? Well, there was still
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In-Depth: 32 FDA-Approved COVID-19 Testing Kits
What You Should Know:
- In-depth look list of FDA-approved COVID-19 test kits
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) offers emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for unapproved products or new uses for approved items in urgent situations where no suitable alternatives exist. Dozens of companies have sought and received EUAs for their testing kits that screen for SARS-CoV-2 — more commonly referred to as COVID-19 or the novel coronavirus.
The FDA makes a
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Why COVID-19 Underscores The Importance of Social Determinants of Health
Google “Social Determinants of Health” and one will quickly discover a kind of litany of data pointing to a certain definition of “health” defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being not merely the absence of disease or infirmity,” and socioeconomic barriers, which may prohibit equitable access to good health and wellness (Healthcare) more completely among diverse populations.
Nevertheless, the heart of the matter
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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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5 Common Types of COVID-19 Grey Market Scams for Hospitals to Avoid
What You Should Know:
- Scammers may be trafficking counterfeit or faulty protective equipment (PPE) during COVID-19 in what is now known as the “grey market.”
- Premier outlines five common types of COVID-19 grey market scams for hospitals to avoid and key best practices to avoid them as hospital brace for the surge in COVID-19 patients.
Healthcare providers are working around the clock to safely
care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic,
and the last thing they need to
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