Doctomatic is a remote patient-monitoring app which, using any medical device from heart-rate monitors to scales, allows doctors to check in on patients with chronic disease. :Gregori Civera https://wired.trib.al/80BpwK6 5/12 https://t.co/PLl8Etgl2V
There’s just one problem: no one really knows how the algorithm reaches those scores or what it’s using to measure risk factor. And if miscalculated, it could keep patients from getting the medicine they desperately need. : Sam Cannon 6/10 https://t.co/llyBVbMrbd
Mary Macdonald, emergency department nurse: “Resources are very slim. We have no medications to keep these patients even ventilated—let alone ventilators. Medications like fentanyl or propofol that would keep a patient sedated while they’re intubated we’re out of.” 9/ https://t.co/tEDq1lzuZg
Meredith Case, internal medicine resident, Columbia University Medical Center: “The deluge is here. Our ICU is completely full with intubated Covid patients. We are rapidly moving to expand capacity.” 6/ https://t.co/BT98Tt7Hzq
