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| | Amazon Care is picking up and delivering at-home tests in effort to study the coronavirus’ spread Amazon Care is teaming up with the Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN) — a research endeavor back by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — to study how the coronavirus is spreading among different demographic groups, according to CNBC. As part of the team-up, Amazon Care will deliver diagnostic tests to individuals who either feel sick or who are asymptomatic. Amazon Care will then pick up the tests for analysis, and participants will be contacted by a clinician if the novel coronavirus is detected. The move follows the firm’s talks with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Seattle-based healthcare firms to provide coronavirus testing support — and helps Amazon Care tap into the infectious disease space. Amazon Care represents one segment of Amazon’s larger healthcare play — and the tech titan’s multifaceted coronavirus initiatives could prime it for success in healthcare post-pandemic.
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| | The FDA is relaxing rules on the manufacture and use of ventilators amid the pandemic With a surge in demand and an anticipated shortage of ventilators looming amid the coronavirus pandemic, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is easing rules on the manufacturing and use of ventilators, per Healthcare Dive. For context, the guidance permits ventilator manufacturers to make modifications such as adding remote patient monitoring (RPM) capabilities to ventilators without submitting a premarket notification first, and offers a road map for nonmedical device manufacturers that want to shift to producing ventilators. We correctly predicted the FDA would become speedier with its digital health clearance process amid the pandemic — and easing ventilator rules should help address supply shortages and enable clinicians to remotely monitor patients. |
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| | CDC BUILDS CORONAVIRUS TRIAGING TOOL USING MICROSOFT’S CHATBOT The CDC used Microsoft’s AI-enabled Healthcare Bot as a launching pad to develop its own recently debuted coronavirus-specific online chatbot, which acts as a symptom checker and triaging tool for patients who fear they may have contracted coronavirus, according to Becker’s Hospital Review. Microsoft made its chatbot’s cloud-based software platform customizable for an array of healthcare clients — and a handful of health systems, including Providence St. Joseph Health, are deploying the software coronavirus triage tools as patients continue to be urged to stay at home unless they’re seriously at risk. |
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