Digital Health

A COVID-19 plasma treatment study led by Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic will get funding from UnitedHealth Group to help accelerate the federally sponsored program.

Boston-based Partners HealthCare scaled its digital workplace platform to serve as a centralized communication hub for COVID-19 information for its 78,000 employees, according to an April 21 news release.

Microsoft has launched a chatbot to identify patients who have recovered from COVID-19 and would be good candidates to donate plasma for treating the disease, CNBC reports. 

The Penn Medicine Center for Digital Health developed a Twitter map to examine how public thinking and behavior around COVID-19 is changing, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Health and Oracle created a patient monitoring web portal that collects daily information on a large population of participants for a multi-organization study on regional infection patterns of COVID-19. 

Stanford (Calif.) Medicine is teaming up with Scripps Research and Fitbit on a new study that aims to detect viral infections such as COVID-19 through data collected from wearable devices.

OSF Ventures joined a $16 million Series B funding round for SilverCloud Health, a digital behavioral healthcare solutions company.

Google will launch two new features in Search and Maps this week that will direct users to virtual care options when they are available, according to a recent company blog post. 

Seattle-based University of Washington Medicine is rolling out a smartphone app to 25,000 study participants to screen for virus infections and predict outbreaks sooner, according to a news release.

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the move toward telehealth and telemedicine platforms as patients and providers turn to remote visits to stay connected with social distancing. The data and digital health platforms that connect healthcare providers and support data analytics…