It’s been just about a year since Scott Gottlieb, MD, resigned as FDA commissioner. The COVID-19 crisis has drawn him back into the public eye. Could he become more influential now than ever?
As the COVID crisis nudges patients as well as providers to give telemedicine a try, a new study shows the option may have had momentum even if the pandemic hadn’t happened.
Intermountain Healthcare, the sprawling 24-hospital system based in Utah, is partnering with a supplier of healthcare-specific virtual assistants to offer patients an automated COVID-19 interface on Intermountain’s homepage.
The COVID-19 crisis is inspiring all manner of loudly touted innovations aimed at leveraging AI to beat back, stamp out or otherwise contain the pandemic. Some watchers aren’t convinced the efforts are worthy of the attention they’re getting.
Healthcare workers stepping outside their comfort zones in Tennessee are being offered free online training in skills needed during the COVID-19 crisis. Many of the materials are open to health workers across the U.S.
Last week Apple and Google jointly announced a Bluetooth platform for tracing contacts of people testing positive with COVID-19. The tech world has been buzzing ever since.
Researchers from West Virginia University have launched a new study aimed at identifying healthcare workers infected with the new coronavirus before they become symptomatic.
The trio’s platform is designed to help healthcare providers quickly find out where their locality stands on things like ventilator utilization, testing results ICU bed availability and COVID patient discharges.
