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This partnership will integrate Expert System’s AI capabilities for medical research, supporting content aggregation and decision making for an evaluation period of six months.

From pilotitis and digital dinosaurs to fully-actioned digital strategies, the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the adoption of digital in the UK.

While the Authority reintroduces services, private hospitals that have been assisting in treating patients are being phased out of the programme. However, more isolation facilities are still being launched.

As a result of COVID-19, the UK has turned decisively to the tech sector to provide them with health solutions. But some places were more prepared than others. In the recent techUK webinar, ‘COVID-19: How Yorkshire’s health tech cluster is responding’, local experts discussed how the already strong integration of digital health tools benefited the ease and speed of the region’s pandemic response.

A new tool from Draper & Dash exploits global, national and local data to help hospitals to plan more effectively for their own COVID-19 peaks – and prepare for the long-term impact of the pandemic.

The map identifies populations likely to experience severe outcomes once infected – and the socioeconomic drivers for such a risk, helping providers allocate resources.

The partnership is designed to deliver real-time awareness for better outcomes and significant cost savings while making care more human with the power of AI, the organizations say.

Dr. Eldesia Granger of The MITRE Corporation guides healthcare leaders on how to work with consumer-generated data. At HIMSS20, she’ll highlight MITRE’s framework for handling this emerging information source.