Mayo Clinic in Florida partnered with the Jacksonville Transportation Authority to deploy autonomous shuttles that transport medical supplies and COVID-19 tests collected at the hospital's drive-thru testing location.
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George Washington University Hospital used virtual reality technology to create a 360-degree view of a COVID-19 patient's lungs, according to a recent episode of the hospital's podcast.
University of California San Francisco physician-scientists launched a new research initiative that uses consumer insights and data to track the spread of COVID-19.
Boston Children’s Hospital Chief Innovation Officer and epidemiologist John Brownstein, MD, collaborated with volunteers to develop a coronavirus tracking website, according to CNBC.
The CDC launched its "Coronavirus Self-Checker" on March 20 to guide Americans who may have COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, to appropriate medical care.
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Though many healthcare organizations have recently launched artificial intelligence chatbots to take on some of the burden of triaging potential COVID-19 cases, those chatbots are producing vastly different findings, Stat reports.
Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies are expanding their longstanding partnership to map out immune responses to COVID-19 in hopes of accelerating development of a vaccine, the companies announced March 20.
The StartX startup community, comprising more than 1,500 physicians, faculty and startup founders from Stanford (Calif.) University and its medical school, has formed a task force to develop and deploy digital health tools to prevent and treat COVID-19.
Patient engagement software startup Gyant began rolling out on March 17 a new virtual clinical assistant to aid healthcare providers as they offer patients COVID-19 screening for and education about the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare is renovating an office complex in downtown Hartford to include an "access center" to manage care coordination and scheduling, as well as a venture studio and telehealth kiosks, the Hartford Courant reports.