Google's Verily is working with Rite Aid to expand its online program for coronavirus testing to sites beyond California to Delaware, Idaho, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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Companies including IBM and Ernst & Young are developing blockchain projects that support COVID-19 relief efforts such as connecting providers with medical equipment and supplies as well as tracking potentially immune individuals, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Mayo Clinic is using Amazon's Alexa to spread updated information about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cleveland Clinic created a model to help hospitals forecast patient volume as well as supply availability and needs in partnership with SAS, and is now sharing the predictive model with other health systems via GitHub.
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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.