Two Oregon Digital Health Companies Team Up with HP to Fight COVID-19

 

HealthSaas, client of Jon Summers, contributing in a big way!

HealthSaaS and AkēLex, with the technical and advisory support of HP, have launched covid19checkup.net, a free, AI-powered, COVID-19 screening tool.

Cognitive Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is quickly emerging as one of the most effective weapons we have to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The Covid19checkup.net service is an extension of the HealthSaaS CarePath AI RPM platform enabled by HP Population Health IT (PHIT) Solutions.

In the first week of March, with COVID-19 advancing across the globe, RPM partners HealthSaaS and AkēLex received a request from one of their clients. The Southern California hospital wished to integrate COVID-19 monitoring into the RPM project the companies were rolling out in collaboration with HP. AkēLex CEO, Dr. Stephen Datena, and HealthSaaS CEO Frank Ille, quickly realized that in addition to providing COVID-19 screening to RPM clients, the platform could also be leveraged as a public service in the fight against the pandemic. Less than three weeks later, thanks to around-the-clock work, a small team of eight people simultaneously integrated COVID-19 into the RPM platform, and publicly released covid19checkup.net, a free, online screening service, backed by AkēLex’s powerful Adaptive Knowledge Engine (AKE).

What Makes Covid19checkup.net Better than Other Screening Tools?

  • RPM minimizes the risk of infection to clinicians and other patients, and reduces the burden on overwhelmed healthcare facilities by providing care in place for quarantined patients.

  • Compared to the many "chatbot symptom checkers" coming to market, covid19checkup.net evaluates a greater number of clinical signs, and also detects, differentiates, and reports other life-threatening conditions that share some of the COVID-19 symptoms (i.e., heart attack, sepsis, low blood sugar).

  • Covid19checkup.net provides users with a printable report—a personalized risk assessment designed to help clinicians more quickly and efficiently triage new patients.

  • Additionally, users are provided with health education and recommendations for multiple conditions based on the guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, American Heart Association, and the American Lung Association

  • The screening is fully anonymous. Users are not asked to create an account or provide any contact information.

  • The service collects population health data only, and makes it available to COVID-19 research and public health institutions such as Johns Hopkins University, and the CDC to better track and understand the spread of the pandemic.

This solution, combined with enterprise-class patient-friendly devices, services, and financing options from HP, is designed to support individuals, government agencies, health systems, hospitals, and researchers to identify, treat, and manage the response to COVID-19.

“In less than three weeks we adapted our technology to aid in the global fight against this pandemic. I’ve never seen a project go from zero to 100 as fast as this.” Ille says. “It’s a credit to all involved. I’m humbled by the experience, and by the way our partners stepped up without hesitation and selflessly put other projects on hold for this initiative.”

Fran Ayalasomayajula, Head of Population Health, Worldwide, HP Inc. explains. “Advances in technology such as broader scale adoption of remote patient monitoring have become essential modalities in assisting in the delivery of care. In the face of epidemics, they offer greater reach of limited resources."

Please connect with us at HealthSaaS.net to learn how you can leverage RPM in your fight against the pandemic.

 
Samantha Gee