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.
Digital Health
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.
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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.
Google sister company Verily will begin offering a COVID-19 testing pilot program, including online screening and new testing locations, developed in partnership with the California governor's office and federal, state and local public health authorities.
Rx.Health launched on March 16 a digital toolkit for hospitals and health systems responding to the coronavirus pandemic, comprising a triage chatbot, artificial intelligence-powered clinical assistant, Microsoft cloud support and more.
Lyft and LogistiCare, a provider of technology to manage nonemergency medical transportation, have renewed and expanded their partnership to improve access to care for patients across the U.S.
Corporate venture capital funding for digital health startups grew more than 20 percent between 2018 and 2019, led by a steady stream of investments from the venture arms of Kaiser Permanente, Optum, Alphabet and more.