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CMS is allowing healthcare providers to react to the COVID-19 pandemic with greater flexibility by loosening some federal requirements and issuing sweeping new rules.

Investment

Venture capital firm General Catalyst and other investors are sinking $51 million into Columbus, Ohio-based Olive with the aim of growing the AI startup’s capacity for automating administrative processes in healthcare.

A healthcare AI company has spotted several unexpected, off-label drug combinations that may do the job against COVID-19. In any case, the company is offering its complete AI toolkit free of charge to drug developers working on COVID treatments.

Ambulance

Any interested party can now see state-by-state forecasts for peak hospitalization vs. capacity due to COVID-19 over the coming four months.

HHS is speeding up the development and manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines by partnering with Johnson & Johnson-owned Janssen Research and Development and Moderna Therapeutics.

Covid Coronavirus

When Windy City residents send out tweets containing the term “food poisoning,” an algorithm offers a form for sharing details with Chicago’s public-health officials. Why not do the same with keywords like “cough,” “fever” and “trouble breathing” to help track COVID-19?

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