The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) https://www.va.gov is teaming with the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation (Foundation) to build new programs to enable VA oncology specialists to provide veterans access to precision cancer care regardless of where they live. (more…)
Telehealth: Beyond the Pandemic
While it is still early to speculate about life after COVID-19, investor questions revolve around what is the future of telehealth and what will telehealth look like once the pandemic is over. To answer some of these questions, Credit Suisse https://www.credit-suisse.com analysts have provided a recap on the telehealth industry pre-COVID, on what changed during COVID, and what the likely path will be going forward.
The phrase the “Genie is Out of the Bottle” in the context of the telehealth industry has come up in every telehealth-related industry/expert call or meeting, Credit Suisse has hosted over the past few weeks. However, the jury is still out on the magnitude of the long term implications on increased consumer awareness and adoption and which industry stakeholders stand to benefit the most.
Studying Pregnancy Outcomes from COVID
NIH’s https://www.nih.gov multi-pronged study is underway to understand the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic during and after pregnancy. Researchers will analyze the medical records of up to 21,000 women. (more…)
Addressing Contract Tracing & Privacy
Christine S. Wilson, Commissioner, of the Federal Trade Commission https://www.ftc.gov presented her remarks at the Privacy + Private Academy virtual event held May 7, 2020 on the topic “Privacy and Public/Private Partnerships in a Pandemic”. (more…)
Anthem’s Challenges & Future
Credit Suisse, https://www.credit-suise.com as part of their “CIO Series” hosted Rajeev Ronanki, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at Anthem (ANTM) https://www.anthem.com for a virtual meeting with a small group of investors. At Anthem, Mr. Ronanki oversees, the vision, strategy, and execution of Anthem’s digital Artificial Intelligence (AI) and exponential technology portfolios to enable Anthem to be an AI-first enterprise. (more…)
COVID-19: Predicting Heart Damage
Johns Hopkins University https://www.jhu.edu researchers recently received a $195,000 “Rapid Response Research” grant from the National Science Foundation https://www.nsf.gov. The grant funding will enable researchers to use machine learning, to identify which COVID-19 patients are at risk for adverse cardiac events such as heart failure, sustained abnormal heartbeats, heart attacks, cardiogenic shock, and death. (more…)
Health Net Awards Grants
Health Net provides health plans for individual families and business and for people on Medicare and people with Medi-Cal. California Medi-Cal providers have received grants from Health Net https://healthnet.com totaling $13.4 million to help establish and expand telehealth and telephonic services. Originally, the company had announced that $5.9 million would be available in grants on April 2, 2020, but based on the overwhelming response to the Request for Support, Health Net decided to award $13.4 million. (more…)