The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health within HHS https://hhs.gov/ash/index.html seeks information to gain a comprehensive understanding of how organizations, networks, non-federal government agencies, and other relevant stakeholders in the U.S have defined as “resilience” in their respective components of the health system. Resilience within components of the health system can include the use of data, and using analytic approaches and proven indicators. (more…)
Healthcare Coalition Publishes Dashboard
In March 2020, private sector organizations formed the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, a collaborative industry response to the novel coronavirus. Mayo Clinic, Leavitt Partners, and several MIT faculty leaders were among the first to join in this effort. Today the Coalition is comprised of more than 900 healthcare organizations, technology firms, and nonprofits. (more…)
NSF Exploring COVID Challenges
The National Science Foundation (NSF) https://www.nsf.gov is accepting ideas and proposals on how to conduct non-medical, non-clinical care research to explore how to model and understand the spread of COVID-19. The goal is to educate others about the science of virus transmission and prevention. (more…)
Innovation in Medical Imaging
Atrium Health https://atriumhealth.org is using a new Point-Of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) device. The device produced by the Butterfly Network, Inc. https://butterflynetwork.com is the first portable single-probe whole body ultrasound device. (more…)
Executive’s Thoughts on Virtual Health
Credit Suisse https://www.credit-suisse.com as part of their Healthcare Disruptive Technologies and Innovations Series, hosted Rakesh Mehta, Director, Virtual Health at Memorial Hermann Health System https://www.memorialhermann.org at a virtual meeting with a small group of investors. (more…)
Update on COVID-19 Studies
An initiative deploying physIQ’s http://www.physiq.com platform to be used to collect and analyze wearable sensor data to better understand the pathophysiology of COVID-19 has been launched by the Department of Defense https://dod.defense.gov and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (HJF) https://www.hjf.org. (more…)
Expanding Decentralized Trials
LabCorp®, https://www.LabCorp.com has announced that Covance, https://www.covance.com part of their drug development business, is expanding their technology ecosystem to accelerate the adoption of decentralized clinical trials, often referred to as hybrid and virtual clinical trials. (more…)