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Intel Invests $100K to Enhance Remote Patient Safety Monitoring

April 4, 2022 - Intermountain Healthcare has been awarded $100,000 by Intel to enhance remote patient safety monitoring throughout its facilities in Utah, the healthcare system announced. The Intel grant will help fund the purchase of 70 new camera systems, supporting the Intermountain Patient Safety Monitoring (PSM) program. “At Intermountain, we strive to...

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Digital Preparedness Helped Healthcare Adapt to COVID-19

by Samantha McGrail

A recent study from Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) found that digital preparedness significantly helped healthcare organizations adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. The EIU interviewed business leaders...

AWS Gives $12M to Fight COVID Through Cloud-Powered Diagnostics

by Samantha McGrail

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that it will distribute $12 million to fight COVID-19 through cloud-powered diagnostics research and development.  Starting in mid-April, AWS will...

Walmart Increases Access to Digital Health Records for Vaccinations

by Samantha McGrail

Walmart will now make digital health records available for those vaccinated at Walmart or its subsidiary, Sam’s Club, so they can easily access their vaccination status as needed, according to a...

CA Offers Residents Digital Record Storage for COVID-19 Vaccination

by Samantha McGrail

Los Angeles County recently partnered with health startup, Healthvana, to roll out a new digital record offering that allows residents to store records of their COVID-19 vaccination in Apple Wallet or...

UC San Diego Helps Expand COVID-19 Contract Tracing App in CA

by Samantha McGrail

The California governor’s office recently announced a statewide expansion to make COVID-19 contact tracing app, CA Notify, available to all Californians by the end of the week through a...

Red Hat, DarwinAI Partner for COVID-19 Artificial Intelligence

by Samantha McGrail

Red Hat and artificial intelligence (AI) company DarwinAI recently collaborated to bring a COVID-19 tool to hospitals and healthcare facilities.  Dubbed COVID-Net, the AI tool is a neural network...

Machine Learning Model Predicts COVID-19 Severity, Mortality

by Samantha McGrail

Machine learning models have the ability to predict the possibility of critical illness or mortality in COVID-19 patients, according to a Journal of Medicine Internet Research (JMIR)...

CO Taps Google, Apple to Support COVID-19 Contact Tracing App

by Samantha McGrail

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) recently launched its statewide COVID-19 contact tracing system using the Google-Apple framework. According to an announcement from...

Healthcare Leaders Find AI a Top Digital Health Priority for 2021

by Samantha McGrail

KLAS and the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) recently released a report which found artificial intelligence (AI) to be one of the most promising emerging technologies in the next two years. The...

GE Healthcare Unveils New Edge Computing Technology for Providers

by Samantha McGrail

GE Healthcare recently announced that it launched a new edge computing technology to help clinicians collect, analyze, and act upon critical data closer to its source.  With the COVID-19...

Tufts Taps Olive’s AI Centers to Expand COVID-19 Testing

by Samantha McGrail

Tufts Medical Center recently announced a partnership with startup healthcare company, Olive, to leverage artificial intelligence to streamline COVID-19 testing operations. The partnership will aim to...

AI-Based CT Scans Can Distinguish COVID-19 Cases from Influenza

by Samantha McGrail

A University of Central Florida researcher is part of a new study, which found that artificial intelligence can detect COVID-19 in the lungs like a virtual physician.  Because COVID-19 looks...

More States Launch COVID-19 App Using Apple, Google Framework

by Samantha McGrail

Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced that Washington and Oregon will join California in piloting a project to test promising exposure notification technology pioneered by Google and...

Integrating Digital Health into Clinical Workflows After COVID-19

by Samantha McGrail

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital healthcare and although consumers are interested in virtual services, concerns over privacy, security, and trust still remain, according to...

3D Digital Models Aid COVID-19 Diagnosis

by Samantha McGrail

LSU Health New Orleans radiologists and anatomists recently teamed up to demonstrate that 3D digital models may be a better tool to visually evaluate COVID-19. In a paper published in BMJ Case...

NIH Leverages AI in Medical Imaging Center for COVID-19 Treatment

by Samantha McGrail

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently launched a medical imaging center, which leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to fight COVID-19. The center, called the Medical Imaging and Data...

IBM, UK Sign Public Cloud Agreement to Boost Essential Services

by Samantha McGrail

Crown Commercial Service (CCS) and IBM recently signed a three-year public cloud agreement that will allow public sector organizations like the National Health Service (NHS) to innovate with digital...

Virginia Rolls Out Contact-Tracing App for COVID-19 Exposure

by Samantha McGrail

Virginia recently launched a contact-tracing app to notify individuals if they were exposed to the coronavirus, becoming the first state in the US to use the Apple-Google COVID-19 exposure technology...

Google Cloud Releases COVID-19 Public Forecasting Model

by Samantha McGrail

Google Cloud and the Harvard Global Health Institute recently launched the COVID-19 Public Forecasts to provide accurate and free projections of coronavirus cases, deaths, and other metrics over two...

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