Digital Health News

In this issue of ‘News & Views’, we’ve covered the latest developments in digital healthcare where tech giants and governments team up in a race to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, using AI.
PRODUCTS & SERVICES
- Social media giant in collaboration with its developers, launches conversational AI to provide educated and informed responses to COVID-19 queries
- AI smart app, a brainchild of Carnegie Mellon University, uses voice analysis for COVID-19 detection
- American tech giants join hands with White House to donate high performance computing (HPC) and AI cloud services to fight the pandemic
- Chinese multinational company partners with Malaysian Ministry of Health to provide an AI solution for early diagnosis of COVID-19 using CT scans
- Two American multinational tech giants team up to launch an effective COVID-19 contact tracing system
FUNDING
- Digital mental health platform lands $16 million in Series B funding Medical cybersecurity startup raises $20M to deliver network security for medical devices
- US Federal Communications Agency expands telehealth services for medical providers, with $200M funding
Editor: Sindhu Menon
Illustrator: Annmary Erinjeri
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