Coronavirus

DoD Uses CARES Act Funds to Leverage AI for COVID-19 Vaccines

by Jessica Kent

The Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking to use money provided by Congress under the CARES Act to leverage artificial intelligence technology for COVID-19 vaccines. For more coronavirus updates,...

Artificial Intelligence Could Speed COVID-19 Detection, Treatment

by Jessica Kent

Artificial intelligence has the potential to enhance the role of chest imaging and leverage large-scale data to quickly find solutions for detecting, containing, and treating COVID-19, according to a...

COVID-19 Data Shows How Social Distancing Impacts Virus Spread

by Jessica Kent

A new analysis of COVID-19 data in 58 cities showed that for each day’s delay in social distancing, a coronavirus outbreak lasts days longer. For more coronavirus updates, visit...

Using Big Data to Prioritize Cancer Treatment During COVID-19

by Jessica Kent

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has threatened to overwhelm hospitals and health systems across the country, leading many providers to defer surgeries and other procedures for an unknown period of...

Big Data Model to Help Optimize Hospital Resources During COVID-19

by Jessica Kent

Researchers at Vanderbilt’s Data Science Institute are developing a model that will use big data to address the impact of COVID-19 on policies, procedures, and resources now and in the...

Care Access Drives COVID-19 Health Disparities in Black Populations

by Jessica Kent

In the time since the COVID-19 pandemic has hit and spread across the US, the virus has further exposed glaring health disparities and lack of quality care access experienced by particular...

Real-Time Data Ring May Predict COVID-19 in Healthcare Workers

by Jessica Kent

Researchers at Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine are aiming to predict COVID-19 by using a smart ring that continuously tracks real-time data and physiological...

EHR Data Reveals Risk Factors for Poor Outcomes with COVID-19

by Jessica Kent

A team from NYU Langone Health analyzed EHR data and found that low levels of blood oxygen and markers of inflammation were strongly associated with poor outcomes among patients...

Machine Learning Helps Detect Heart Damage in COVID-19 Patients

by Jessica Kent

A team at Johns Hopkins University has received a $195,000 Rapid Response Research grant from the National Science Foundation to use machine learning to detect which COVID-19 patients are at high risk...

AI-Driven Supercomputer Helps with COVID-19 Response, Recovery

by Jessica Kent

A supercomputer powered by artificial intelligence is helping a team at Penn State’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) find solutions for COVID-19 now and in the future. For...

3 States to Use Apple, Google COVID-19 Contact Tracing System

by Jessica Kent

Alabama, North Dakota, and South Carolina are the first states to publicly comment about using Apple and Google’s COVID-19 contact tracing technology, now available to public health agencies on...

Machine Learning Models Estimate Seasonal Impact of COVID-19

by Jessica Kent

Using machine learning, scientists may be able to assess the role climate and environmental variables play in the transmission of COVID-19. For more coronavirus updates, visit our resource page,...

Artificial Intelligence Tool Identifies COVID-19 in CT Scans

by Jessica Kent

An artificial intelligence tool can quickly detect COVID-19 based on CT scans of the chest and patients’ clinical data, according to a study published in Nature Medicine. For more coronavirus...

Natural Language Processing Tracks Public Interest in COVID-19 Topics

by Jessica Kent

A team from Penn Medicine has shown that public health officials can use natural language processing techniques to track surges in interest in COVID-19 topics on online forums, such as Reddit. For...

Population Health Study to Estimate Prevalence of COVID-19 in CA

by Jessica Kent

The University of California, Irvine, and the Orange County Health Care Agency are partnering to conduct a large-scale population health study that will help researchers determine the true prevalence...

Amazon, UCSF Partner for COVID-19 Genome Sequencing Projects

by Jessica Kent

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is partnering with researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct genome sequencing on the viruses infecting hundreds of COVID-19 patients in the...

Artificial Intelligence, Genomics Tools to Help Combat COVID-19

by Jessica Kent

To aid COVID-19 research efforts, NVIDIA has developed new artificial intelligence models, genomic sequencing software, and speech recognition technologies for the medical community. For more...

Deep Learning Tools Can Accurately Identify Common Eye Disease

by Jessica Kent

Researchers at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) have developed deep learning tools that can detect age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness in the...

Machine Learning Approach Could Accelerate COVID-19 Drug Discovery

by Jessica Kent

Researchers from Penn State College of Engineering are aiming to speed COVID-19 drug discovery with quantum machine learning, a field that combines machine learning and quantum physics. For more...

Toolkits Use Prescription Drug Claims Data to Combat Opioid Misuse

by Jessica Kent

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG) has developed two toolkits to identify certain patients at risk of opioid misuse or overdose using prescription...