Emergency medical service agencies in Virginia’s rural Essex, Westmoreland, and/or Richmond counties, are able to respond to a call for a patient with COVID-19 symptoms by communicating in real time with VCU Health emergency medicine physicians using telehealth. (more…)
TMT’s Call for Papers
The telehealth sector has been called to action by governments, citizens, and health providers around the globe. “Telehealth and Medicine Today” (TMT) an entirely open access journal has an immediate call for manuscript contributions for “COVID-19 Current Situation, Reflections & Future Challenges” with a continuous submission deadline. (more…)
FCC Approves Telehealth Applications
The FCC’s https://www.fcc.gov Wireline Competition Bureau recently approved an additional 13 funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth program. Healthcare providers in both urban and rural areas will use the $4.2 million to provide telehealth services during the coronavirus pandemic. To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth program has funded 30 healthcare providers in 16 states for a total of $13.7 million. (more…)
Weaning Patients Off Ventilators
Synapse Biomedical https://www.synapsebiomedical.com/covid-19, working with University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH) https://uhospitals.org and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) https://case.edu has received FDA approval for emergency use of their “TransAeris Diaphragmatic Pacing (DP) Stimulator System”. (more…)
BayCare’s CMIO Hosted at Meeting
Credit Suisse https://www.credit-suisse.com as part of their “CIO Series” hosted Dr. Alan Weiss, CMIO, BayCare Health System https://baycare.org, at a virtual meeting with a small group of investors. (more…)
Big Data/Telehealth to Fight Virus
Graham Dufault, Director, Public Policy for the App Association https://www.ACTonline.org, presented written testimony “Enlisting Big Data in the Fight against Coronavirus” to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation https://commerce.senate.gov in April. (more…)
DHS Seeks Tools to Fight COVID-19
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) https://www.dhs.gov is seeking innovative commercial products to confront and respond to COVID-19. The U.S Government wants to rapidly accelerate the testing and fielding of new capabilities, employ innovative commercial products to detect exposure, to help prevent and contain, and treat the coronavirus along with similar microbial threats. (more…)