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Why canceling events makes sense in the age of COVID-19

Across the nation, cities, states, and businesses are mobilizing to take drastic measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. This level of action hasn’t occurred since the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic that killed more than 50 million people around the world. Public health officials say the steps are not just necessary but critical in order to stop the spread of the virus. The difference between fast action now and further delays, they said, will determine if the disease has a low, relatively flat “curve”...

You can now get a free coronavirus assessment online, thanks to telehealth companies

As of March 11, 2020, coronoavirus tests were not widely available in the U.S. However, telehealth companies are providing online help to people concerned they may have coronavirus symptoms. Several telehealth companies think they can provide valuable triage as coronavirus spreads across the U.S. Major health care systems are also considering ways for doctors to provide telehealth services by teaming up with platforms like American Well, Teladoc, or MDLive. American Well is offering to screen patients for COVID-19 symptoms and make recommendations on what they should do....

This onion-shaped sculpture is actually a delivery drone launch station

Matternet’s new drone station looks like something out of a science fiction movie. But it’s really the next step in the company’s push to make health care more efficient and cut costs. Eight feet tall, the unit can be placed at ground level or on a rooftop. Hospital staff will place samples that need to get tested inside the station, and it will autonomously load those samples into a drone. Then the top of the tower will unfurl to launch the drone into the air—getting the...

Atrius Health Engages Kyruus to Advance Novel Digital Patient Access Initiatives

Atrius Health, the Northeast’s largest nonprofit independent medical group, has selected Kyruus solutions to enhance patient access across Eastern Massachusetts. Atrius Health is undertaking a series of digital initiatives designed to streamline and modernize access to its network of more than 1,100 providers. In the first step of the process, Atrius Health will work with Kyruus to build enhanced profile information for Atrius Health providers in the KyruusOne provider data management platform, matching Kyruus’s proprietary clinical taxonomy to providers’ clinical areas of focus. The taxonomy maps...

Augmedix Listed Among Largest Greater Bay Area Digital Health Companies

In January of 2020, the San Francisco Business Times compiled a list of the largest Greater Bay Area digital health companies, as ranked by Bay Area employees. Information was obtained from company representatives, and in case of ties, companywide employees was used as secondary ranking criteria. On that list was McKesson Ventures portfolio company Augmedix. Augmedix turns natural clinician-patient conversation into medical documentation, in real time, so that clinicians can focus on what matters most—patient care. Its platform is powered by a combination of proprietary NLP...