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Clarius Wins SuperCluster Deal to Supply Eighty Portable Handheld Ultrasound Scanners Across BC (for Faster Covid-19 Diagnosis)
Wednesday, May 27, 2020Company Profile | Follow Company
Clarius Ultrasound is Helping to Deliver Faster COVID-19 Diagnosis
Burnaby, BC, May 27, 2020--(T-Net)--Clarius Mobile Health announced today that a point of care ultrasound (PoCUS) for COVID-19 project team is deploying more than eighty Clarius portable handheld ultrasound scanners across the province of British Columbia for faster COVID-19 diagnosis.
The Digital Technology Supercluster project, led by St. Paul's Hospital emergency physician and UBC Faculty of Medicine clinical assistant professor Dr. Oron Frenkel, will provide clinicians in rural settings with point of care ultrasound (PoCUS) technology, supported by artificial intelligence (AI) and a robust educational network.
Rural and remote health care practitioners with limited access to specialists will be able to diagnose pneumonia from suspected COVID-19 patients in real time. The team will build Canada's first ultrasound library for lung disease, including COVID-19. The on-demand platform will use collected data to train machine learning models, which will be accessible to all users right at the point of care.
"This means even physicians with limited experience using handheld ultrasound scanners will be able to obtain fast, accurate results," explains Dr. Frenkel, "and ultimately, this will transform the way remote areas can deal with COVID-19 in their communities."
Data from pandemic hotspots suggest PoCUS can help detect up to 33 per cent more cases of COVID-19 pneumonia than some current lab tests alone. It is also less expensive and avoids the delays patients in some remote communities have experienced with their lab test results.
"We're proud to be involved with this dedicated team in the fight against COVID-19," said Laurent Pelissier, CEO & founder of Clarius. "It's gratifying to know that Clarius scanners will be used by physicians at acute care centers in our local communities and across the province to quickly help seriously ill patients."
The Digital Technology Supercluster COVID-19 program is investing $60 million to deliver solutions to some of the biggest health and safety problems created by COVID-19. In addition, these projects will build expertise and capacity to address and anticipate issues that may arise in future health crises.
Dr. Virginia Robinson, Rural Coordination Centre of BC (based in Fernie): "Ultrasound has been a game changer for rural care in general, allowing immediate diagnoses for triaging and expediting trauma cases to higher levels of care. The establishment of the COVID network means physicians will be able to share their images with any specialist and receive immediate feedback. All of a sudden, even novice ultrasound users will be able to gain valuable, potentially life-saving information."
More information from project collaborators: Canadian Digital Technology Supercluster, The University of British Columbia & Providence Health Care
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