Morning Headlines 5/15/20
Donation to Akron Children’s establishes new chair that may be first in nation
Akron Children’s Hospital (OH) will use a $1 million donation to endow the country’s first chair in telehealth, to be held by CMIO and oncologist Sarah Rush, MD.
The state of Utah opts for contact-tracing app technology from Twenty, a social media startup that pivoted from developing a meet-up app to the Healthy Together app in just three weeks.
23andMe study to recruit sickest Covid-19 patients in bid to unravel role of genetics in disease
In an effort to find out if genetics plays a role in COVID-19 symptoms, 23andMe enlists hospitals to help it recruit severely ill patients for an expanded study.
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