An unlikely team at Berkeley Lab has created a text-mining tool that may help scientists of all disciplines tame and tap the presently blinding blizzard of COVID-19 papers.
A company offering healthcare and wellness services to its clients’ employees is partnering with a neighboring company specialized in predictive data analytics to blunt the impact of COVID-19 on those same employees.
A supplier of remote patient monitoring technology is working with the Mayo Clinic to speed up diagnosis of COVID-19 and predict its course in stricken patients using AI.
IBM has launched a blockchain-based network for healthcare organizations and government agencies looking to quickly find and hire alternative supply-chain sources during the public-health crisis set off by the COVID-19 outbreak.
For champions of AI in healthcare, the COVID-19 crisis affords an unignorable opportunity to trumpet the technology’s current contributions while directing attention to its potential for helping fight public-health crises to come.