Population and Public Health
The health system is implementing new technologies to help it pinpoint frequent readmissions and identify underlying social determinants of health.
COVID-19
An integrated virtual clinic app has been designed to take the heat out of the struggle to maintain appointment levels when they are under intense stress from the COVID-19 response, as the situation steps up the pace of digital transformation.
Governments are finding technology-based tracking is helping in slowing the spread of the coronavirus, but when does it cross the line into problematic surveillance?
The in-development system foregoes GPS tracking and other identifying data collection methods in its effort to automate labor-intensive COVID-19 contact tracing.
COVID-19
Also, tech-enabled home care provider Cera has concluded research into the performance of AI in comparison to human clinicians.
pandemic
Vasileios Nittas, an epidemiologist from the University of Zurich, explains the importance of technology in the middle of a pandemic.
The new maps will be able to look at co-location, movement and social interaction data.
The test was designed to identify specific antibodies in order to detect if a patient has had coronavirus in the past.
The new website and app were born out of a partnership with Apple, the CDC, the White House Coronavirus Task Force and FEMA.
This morning MassChallenge hosted a virtual summit focused on innovation and the coronavirus.