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A weekend update to the virtual assistant includes a new COVID-19 conversation tree, which relies on information and guidance from the CDC and links users to consumer telehealth services if appropriate.
Nurx, Carbon Health and Everlywell have officially halted their mail-order testing-kit services. But at least one startup is still moving to secure an Emergency Use Authorization for its at-home rapid serology diagnostic.
Facebook also plans to hold a virtual hackathon focused on COVID19.
Deep Dive: From clinical decision support to revenue cycle to cybersecurity, machine learning algorithms are already transforming healthcare, although much depends on how they're implemented.
The temporary policy also extends to some clinical decision support software used in conjuction with these remote monitor devices.
[Since this article was published, the FDA has released an alert warning that it has not yet authorized any COVID-19 home testing kits]
Early data from the roughly 100,000-participant effort suggest infrequent social distancing and regional behavior disparities (as of March 15).
[Since this article was published, the FDA has released an alert warning that it has not yet authorized any COVID-19 home testing kits]
The recently announced COVID-19 Open Research Dataset consists of more than 29,000 machine-readable coronavirus articles ripe for analysis.