Private sector organizations have formed the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, a collaborative industry response to the novel coronavirus. Mayo Clinic, Leavitt Partners, and MIT faculty leaders were among the first to take part in the effort.
The leaders asked MITRE to help coordinate the private sector response and serve as an independent party to facilitate data and coordinate response on resource requirements across a range of organizations around the world.
Other goals are to connect an ecosystem of private sector capabilities to accelerate telehealth, home care, and alternative options to reduce the load at hospitals. The plan is to connect PPE suppliers and government COVID-19 initiatives to enable startups to rapidly accelerate ventilator supplies.
Coalition members include Arcadia.io, athenahealth, Amazon Web Services, Buoy Health, CommonWell Health Alliance, Epic, HCA Healthcare, Intermountain Healthcare, LabCorp, Leavitt Partners, MassChallenge, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, MITRE, nference, Rush University System for Health, Salesforce, and the University of California Healthcare System. Experts with knowledge on pandemics at the strategic, clinical, and operational level are also engaged.
“Applying real-time data analytics and best practice guidance to a pandemic can flatten the curve of infection and change its course as seen with Ebola and H1N1” said, Dr. Jay Schnitzer, MITRE’s Chief Technology and Medical Officer.
For more information, go to https://c19hcc.org.