A new artificial intelligence consortium will offer nearly $6 million in funding and resources for researchers using AI and data analytics to address and slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
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City officials in St. Augustine, Fla., will distribute hundreds of app-connected thermometers to residents to improve coronavirus tracking in the region, ABC News reports.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, innovation leaders at hospitals and health systems across the U.S. have been forced to reevaluate their existing strategies and reframe ongoing IT projects to assist with COVID-19 triage and treatment.
A portable artificial intelligence device was able to analyze coughing sounds in a clinic waiting room and produce models of the spread of the flu and other viral respiratory diseases, such as COVID-19, a new study finds.
The strategic use of robotic surgery service lines has the potential to help hospitals achieve lower costs while also improving clinical outcomes, patient experience and provider satisfaction.
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Data scientists and epidemiologists are working together to develop a tool that will forecast the number of patients who will contract the novel coronavirus using big data, machine learning and other digital tools, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, signed on as a tenant of a new medical innovation center under development at the former Michael Reese Hospital site in Chicago, according to a March 12 Chicago Sun-Times report.
B.well Connected Health, a startup developing software that gives patients direct access to their real-time healthcare data, closed a Series A funding backed by Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health, Appleton, Wis.-based ThedaCare and Walgreens' Well Ventures.
Rachel Sherman, MD, former principal deputy commissioner of food and drugs for the FDA, has joined the board of directors for Sema4, a startup using advanced analytics to build models for precision medicine delivery.
InterSystems struck a partnership with DataRobot that will integrate their respective data and enterprise artificial intelligence platforms; the resulting AI-driven analytics platform is currently being tested by TechSpring, Baystate Health's digital innovation program.