A UK based artificial intelligence radiology company is to launch a new pilot with Apollo Radiology International, part of the Apollo Hospitals Group, across India. The hospital group across India will be testing Behold.ai’s ‘instant triage’ AI-based chest X-ray technology to triage suspected COVID-19 patients. The technology is hoped to speed […]
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Mayo Clinic launches AI study to investigate how COVID-19 attacks the heart
A collaboration between Ultromics, a specialist AI system to support clinicians in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease has partnered with the Mayo Clinic to quantify cardiac involvement in COVID-19 and help triage high-risk patients with myocardial injury. The research team is applying the artificial intelligence system to map how the COVID-19 […]
MIT launches app in USA using crowdsourced data to highlight hospital resources
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has launched a tool in the United States, based on crowdsourced data, to help patients and professionals see real-time availability of hospital resources. The team has developed a web app which is now publicly accessible at: https://Covid19hospitalstatus.com. The tool aims to highlight and support capacity and […]
Feature: UAE labs implement connected management system to accelerate COVID-19 testing
InterSystems has signed an agreement with Pure Health to deploy the TrakCare Lab Enterprise system to support the UAE’s testing initiatives for COVID-19. GCC’s largest lab operator Pure Health is to deploy technology from InterSystems to support the largest laboratory network in the Gulf region with 115 labs and employing a […]
Former Cambridge CEO to utilise COVID impact assessment tool across Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) is to adopt a COVID-19 impact assessment tool from Draper & Dash to better understand its capacity needs. The tool helps healthcare providers plan resources and response strategies using local data such as pathology, radiology and live emergency department data and also pulls in […]
USA developers launch USA Covid Near You tracking tool
US developers at Harvard and Boston Children’s Hospital have launched a USA COVID-19 tracking tool. The tool created by epidemiologists and software developers at Harvard, Boston Children’s Hospital and a group of volunteers from across the technology industry is called Covid Near You. It uses crowdsourced data to visualise maps to […]
AI content analysis on COVID-19 archive literature
A team of US health tech specialists this week announced a new programme to use artificial intelligence to scan 24,000 papers on COVID-19 to find patterns, signs and insights about the virus. The aim is to help to find answers to questions raised by the World Health Organisation about the pandemic. […]
Nuance ambient clinical room tech on general release
Nuance and Microsoft have announced their ambient clinical intelligence solution is now available on general release. The solution securely captures and contextualises patient-heathcare professional conversations to update an electronic medical record. Optimised microphones in a consultation room are used to capture conversation and automatically document the conversation into a health […]
HIMSS cancels 2020 health tech exhibition due to the Coronavirus
On Thursday 5th March 2020, a leading US healthcare conference, HIMSS announced the cancellation of its 2020 health tech exhibition due to the Coronavirus. Earlier in the week Amazon, Intel, Cisco and Salesforce all backed out of the health-tech conference HIMSS. It’s the first time in 58 years the company said […]
Apple and Johnson & Johnson team up on new stroke study
Johnson & Johnson and Apple have joined to launch a new study called Heartland to explore the potential of the Apple Watch to be used to reduce the risk of stroke. The partnership opened enrolement in the Heartline™ Study this week. The study aims to assess whether the Heartline™ Study app […]
