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Editor’s Note: This publication originally appeared on Bright.md’s website.
Among the many leading-edge biotech, medical device and digital health companies solving critical needs during the COVID-19 pandemic are physicians working with positive cases, companies with FDA cleared solutions and those that are on the fast-track with the CDC. The following are a few ways the StartX Med COVID-19 Task Force is working to provide hope, flatten the curve, and combat the novel coronavirus:
- Rapid tests suitable for drive through testing, nursing homes, and ER rooms with results in 10 minutes
- Applications and hardware to assess respiratory issues
- Rapid solutions to fight developing sepsis and correlating antibiotic resistance resulting from COVID-19 severe complications
- COVID-19 related applications for remotely monitoring quarantined patients and healthcare workers who have been exposed
- Rapid RNA testing technologies
- Testing that provides information on the presence, type and severity of infections
- Solutions for optimizing hospital operations and supply chain tracking
- Solutions for automated quarantine management and remote virtual triage
- A centrifuge system which is readily deployable for remote sample collection and prep
- A handheld device measuring temperature, lung sounds, airway pressure, pulmonary function, ECG, and SPO2
- Remote monitoring for respiratory diseases, and other StartX Med technologies already deployed in Wuhan, China
- Free access to the Bioz research platform for biopharma companies
- Free virtual COVID-19 evaluation, screening and escalation tool for any hospital in the U.S. to help preserve clinical resources for patients who warrant in-person care
- StartX Med therapeutics companies with new antiviral drugs to treat COVID-19 and the most common lung disease caused by it, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), are accelerating their efforts to take their treatments into clinical settings.
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