System Director of Virtual Health and Telemedicine at Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health Jonathan Witenko outlines how his health system is becoming a low-contact facility and the strategy to prepare for another surge of COVID-19 patients later this year.
Digital Health
Fitbit is shifting gears from developing its standard wearable tech and fitness tracker products to developing emergency-use ventilators, according to CNBC.
Direct-to-consumer DNA testing company 23andMe is asking hospitals to help recruit patients who have been hospitalized with COVID-19 to join its genetics study of the disease, according to STAT.
Phoenix-based Banner Health launched virtual waiting rooms in its 300 clinics May 14, expanding its use of telehealth technology amid the pandemic.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will award $5 million in funding for research on digital healthcare strategies during fiscal year 2020.
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The travel industry has screeched to a halt during the pandemic as cities put stay-at-home orders in place and travelers grow weary of big crowds.
Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System is implementing Capsule Technologies' Ventilated Patient Surveillance workstation to help monitor ventilated COVID-19 patients.
Alistair Erskine, MD, chief digital health officer of Mass General Brigham in Boston, outlined how he sees hospital rooms changing in the future as part of the World Medical Innovation Forum, a virtual event held on May 11.
New York City-based Mount Sinai has partnered with Google Nest to install video and audio technologies for monitoring critically ill COVID-19 patients.
St. Louis-based Ascension is sending mobile COVID-19 testing labs to patients' homes in Texas, according to The Stephenville Empire-Tribune.