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Jefferson Health, the 14-hospital system serving the Philadelphia area, is using a new conversational chatbot to take questions from members of the community looking for information on COVID-19.

Elderly

Stanford researchers had been working for years on an AI-powered system to monitor elderly patients at home when the coronavirus outbreak became a global crisis. Now their work is not just nifty but needed.

A new deep learning algorithm can evaluate 134 different skin disorders, predicting malignancy and recommending key treatment options, according to new findings published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

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Representatives from the two companies emphasized that its effectiveness is still being validated. At this stage, it is to be used for research purposes and not as a diagnostic tool.

It’s one for all—and all as one—across the Empire State. There Gov. Andrew Cuomo has informally merged all New York’s hospitals into one massive entity to deal with COVID-19.

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Mayo Clinic Jacksonville in Florida is relieving overstretched hospital workers by toting medical supplies, including COVID-19 tests, in driverless shuttles.

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The approval, made as part of a special FDA pilot program, took just 50 days.