FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (PRWEB)
June 29, 2020

In a world filled with viruses that can ruin a cruise vacation for thousands of guests or even put a ship out of commission, the new netTALK MARITIME Integrated Passenger and Crew Communications Experience gives cruise lines the ability to identify a sick passenger early and quarantine him or her immediately. This makes the ship safer for all onboard, and provides much needed reassurance to the cruising public who are currently reluctant to set sail again.

The netTALK MARITIME system has seamlessly joined with the Tritan Software SeaCare platform, allowing frequent, critical, real-time health information to be sent electronically to the ship’s medical team without any initial physical interaction required. The SeaCare platform complies with all governmental requirements and can receive, process, monitor, protect, and manage the required health data of each person onboard (guests and crew). All of this is provided through the ongoing contactless health-check methods gathered and made available securely through netTALK MARITIME.

The screening process includes noninvasive pulse reading and rhythm, respiration rate and rhythm, fever detection (coming soon), Sp02 oxygen saturation (coming soon), and a chat-bot questionnaire based on current triage protocols used by hospitals. A photo is taken at time of measurement to ensure identity.

With this interactive method, symptoms are quickly caught, allowing the sick person to be quarantined immediately. The chance of broad contamination is instantly minimized. The medical staff is alerted to any potential health problem, allowing them to make an assessment, a diagnosis, and a recommendation for care.

Screenings can be custom configured by guest or crew location in real-time, by certain time intervals, or simply self-reporting at their leisure before leaving their cabin – not just at embarkation and debarkation. Guests are also quickly checked when entering public areas of the ship to prevent contamination of large gatherings. Crew members are screened at key points, such as before entering guest cabins, before manning workstations, and at other scheduled times to verify they are healthy and able to work around other crew and guests.

For sick passengers required to quarantine, virtual checkups continue directly from their cabins. Using the passenger’s mobile phone and the cruise line’s own app embedded with the netTALK MARITIME system, the medical team can communicate with patients via voice, video, walkie-talkie, and chat features, and can also facilitate shore-side doctors to speak directly with patients. Some vital-sign diagnostics can even be checked via the mobile phone’s camera, further minimizing any personal contact with infected passengers.

To protect others onboard, once a sick person is identified, contact tracing can be enabled to locate, test, and potentially quarantine people at risk of infection due to their previous proximity to a known infected person. Contact tracing also identifies locations onboard where an infected person spent time so those areas can receive extra sanitization.

“This solution helps in a lot of ways, so cruise lines will be able to monitor, do contact tracing and minimize visits to the medical center since people can chat or have a video consultation with a doctor,” said Roger Blum of Cruise & Port Advisors, which represents netTALK Maritime to the cruise industry. “This could also allow virtual consultations for people who have non-COVID issues, such as a cut, reducing their potential exposure at a medical center waiting room.”

Before the cruise industry can return to previous operations and capacity levels, health concerns must be addressed. The cruising public must feel confident and reassured before they risk their vacation time, money, and health on a cruise, and the netTALK MARITIME Health Services solution makes that level of confidence achievable.

About netTALK MARITIME

Leveraging the latest advances in technology, netTALK MARITIME gives cruise lines and other sea-going vessels a revolutionary new health solution. Key to this new powerful solution is netTALK MARITIME’s Shipboard Communications platform, that gives critical instantaneous information to passengers, crew, and medical staff through their own mobile phones via the cruise line’s own app via voice and video calling, real-time chat, and push-to-talk walkie-talkie features. In addition to advanced communications, the system increases health and safety through ongoing monitoring of everyone onboard. The netTALK MARITIME system includes all of these service components:

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  Health Services – Frequent and secure contactless vital-sign health monitoring of all guests and crew are seamlessly relayed to the Tritan Software SeaCare platform which receives, processes, monitors, protects, and manages the health data. A sick passenger can be quarantined swiftly, monitored remotely, and contact tracing can locate others who may have had interaction with that person.
• Wayfinding Services – Guest groups can stay in contact, organize meet ups, and share location information. They can get dynamic directions to a specific location or to where others in a guest’s party are located.
• Messaging Services – Generalized or guest-specific messages can be determined by current location onboard. Crew can be notified of approaching guest arrival. Improve guest satisfaction by providing “invisible” services to guests based on preferences, location, and time.
• Location Services – Locate children and other guests booked on the same reservation. Opt-in to share locations with other select guests. Verify presence at muster stations. Use geo-fencing for added security, such as being notified if a child leaves a protected area, or an unauthorized person enters a secure or crew-only area.
• Heat Maps and Flow Services – Understand guest flow and group dynamics. Analyze heat maps to review current and historical trends. Track crew. Predict traffic flow. Verify passengers are onboard. Distribute live emergency video to all stakeholders and emergency responders.

About Tritan Software

Tritan is the industry’s #1 provider of Health Information and Incident Management software platforms. Tritan currently supports approximately 90% of existing cruise lines with a rapidly growing presence in the Commercial Shipping, Energy and Mining industries. Tritan Software is a privately held corporation with headquarters in Miami, FL.

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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (PRWEB)
June 29, 2020

AltruBio Inc. http://www.altrubio.com, a clinical stage biotech company, has announced the presentation of AbGn-107 at the 2020 ASCO GI Cancer Symposium in January 24, 2020. AbGn-107 is an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) that selectively targets a glycoepitope expressed on various gastrointestinal tumors. This dose-escalation Phase 1 study, led by renowned oncologist Dr. Andrew Ko of the University of California San Francisco, was conducted in patients with chemo-refractory locally advanced, recurrent, or metastatic gastric, pancreatic, colorectal or biliary cancer. AbGn-107 showed a well-tolerated safety profile and acceptable PK profile, as well as preliminary signs of efficacy including several patients with prolonged disease control. The ongoing cohort expansion phase was initiated focusing on enrollment of patients with high expression of this glycoepitope target to further evaluate the safety and efficacy of this ADC.

About AbGn-107.

AbGn-107, an antibody equipped with AltruBio’s proprietary linker-payload, targets novel tumor-associated antigens on the surface of certain gastrointestinal (GI) cancers including stomach, biliary system, pancreas, colon and rectum. The targeting antibody is conjugated with a potent toxin through a cleavable linker which could only be cleaved inside the tumor cells. AbGn-107 demonstrated an excellent antitumor efficacy in at least six established xenograft tumor models and a favorable safe profile in NHP toxicity studies. AbGn-107 binds to approximately 40-50% of pancreatic, gastric and biliary cancers and 20-25% of colorectal cancers.

About GI cancers

Pancreatic cancer is the third-leading cause of death from cancer in the United States, with a 5-year survival rate of about 6%, the lowest rate among all cancer types. Gastric cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the world and the third leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the world. While the death rate from colorectal cancer is declining, it still remains the second most common cause of cancer-related death in the world. These sobering statistics highlight the need for more effective therapies and strategies that can improve the survival and quality of life of patients diagnosed with each of these malignancies.

About AltruBio Inc. (http://www.altrubio.com)

AltruBio is a privately held biotechnology company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area that is focused on developing novel antibody therapeutics for the treatment of immunological diseases with high unmet medical needs. Based on unique insights into immune tolerance and epitope dominance sciences, AltruBio’ pipeline includes two clinical stage product candidates: (i) Neihulizumab (AbGn-168H) an immune checkpoint agonist antibody targeting PSGL-1/CD162 that depletes unwanted activated T cells with proof of mechanism in four autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, and (ii) AbGn-107, an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) employing a unique enzyme cleavable hydrophilic self-immolative linker and targeting a gastrointestinal tumor antigen. AbGn-107 has demonstrated encouraging results in chemo-refractory gastric, pancreatic, colorectal and biliary cancers.

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STAMFORD, Conn. (PRWEB)
June 29, 2020

The Game Agency (TGA) wins 2 International Serious Play Awards for a series of K-12 Educational gamified courses recently released across North America.

TGA was awarded 1 Gold and 1 Silver in the categories of Literacy and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for K-12 Education.

The Gold award was given to a gamified course created for The Early Literacy Project, a coalition of corporations and organizations committed to helping teach students in kindergarten, first, and second grade with critical literacy subskills, and cultivating a passion for reading. Comprised of 15 beautifully illustrated mini-games, this course focuses on multiple learning objectives including letter identification, spelling, word building, phonemic awareness and beginner-level reading. The course follows a story of an imaginary team of space commanders who have been tasked with keeping the world safe from environmental dangers. By using games to build, practice, and reinforce critical literacy skills, students are given the opportunity to immerse themselves into this fantastical world where they are the hero of their own literary journey. https://thegameagency.com/case-studies-category/the-early-literacy-project/

The Silver was awarded to an Online Safety game designed to teach middle school students how to be responsible digital citizens. It just takes one wrong click to end up in a world of trouble. From crashing hard drives to hijacking passwords, computer viruses can be lethal. This course educates students on the nuts and bolts of how technology works while placing them in a variety of virtual environments and challenging them to tackle issues including internet safety, cyberbullying, and properly crediting creators of online content. The most memorable learning experiences are the fun ones. That’s no exception here, where everything comes together with interactive gameplay. Students must demonstrate their mastery of digital issues by creating a blog, managing a social networking site, solving technology problems, and working to resolve a cyberbullying situation. The special balance between custom game design, artwork and course development is what sets this course apart from the typical online learning course, leading to higher engagement that ultimately results in increased learner retention.

https://thegameagency.com/case-studies-category/educational-program-for-online-safety/

“Now more than ever, there is a real need for quality Edtech around the globe and in creating each of these games I believe we advance the K-12 offerings,” said Stephen Baer, Co-Founder & Head of Creative, The Game Agency. “We appreciate the awards we have received from Serious Play and we are thrilled to see each game being used by tens of thousands of students around the globe. The Game Agency believes that a well-designed game can educate, motivate, and activate students more effectively than any other teaching method. We are hyper-focused on encouraging discovery, providing feedback, and creating success stories one student at a time.”

About The Game Agency

Since 2007, The Game Agency has been creating micro-training games and deep immersive simulations, designed to reinforce educational content, assess learner comprehension and increase knowledge retention. TGA’s corporate training games have been played in over 100 countries and in 20+ languages and cover topics such as new-employee on-boarding, sales and product training, social skills, leadership development, security, safety, compliance, financial literacy, systems and processes, and customer service. Their game authoring tool, The Training Arcade® has a library of 8 training games that can be rapidly deployed in 16 languages with any content in minutes (no coding required). Its robust analytics dashboard is designed to unveil patterns of individual and group engagement with any training material, thereby improving training ROI by revealing knowledge gaps, personality behaviors, and group comparisons.

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NEW YORK (PRWEB)
June 29, 2020

Health Data Movers (HDM), a leading healthcare IT consulting and application development firm, announced today the hiring of recruiters Brett Kimes and Durc Strand.

An industry veteran with ten years of experience, Kimes joined HDM earlier this spring. Kimes began working in Healthcare IT at Oxford Global Resources, where he rose to Director of Recruiting. Kimes will focus on HDM’s technical recruiting in healthcare IT and application development. Joining Kimes this month is Strand, formerly the Senior Director of Talent Solutions at PivotPoint. Strand, who started his healthcare IT career at TEK Systems in 2010, has been both an account manager and a recruiter during his tenure in the industry. Strand will work with Kimes to ensure that HDM continues to represent the HIT industry’s top talent.

“After having grown our account management team so quickly over the past few months, adding exceptional talent to our recruiting team was a top priority,” said Tyler Smith, Partner. “Brett and Durc bring deep networks of talented resources to meet client needs for both consultants and direct hire resources.”

When asked about HDM, Kimes said, “I am extremely grateful and blessed to have joined Health Data Movers. The family the partners have built and the culture we are creating are unparalleled by any I have experienced in my career. It’s a very exciting time to be part of such a great organization, and I look forward to helping HDM continue to grow.”

Strand added, “I’m excited to join HDM and be part of a growing team driven by a culture of family and excellence. I am passionate about delivery, recruiting, and building relationships with consultants and clients. The partners’ vision and HDM’s market presence and expertise were a huge draw for me. I’m proud to be part of a team doing such amazing things.”

About Health Data Movers (HDM)

Health Data Movers’s mission is to improve the lives of patients and providers by unleashing the potential of healthcare data and technology. HDM executes data conversions, EHR implementations, and development projects with the nation’s top healthcare provider organizations, medical device firms, and digital health enterprises. The company works with organizations that put their patients first and strive for the seamless and safe transfer of medical information.

For more information, visit http://www.healthdatamovers.com

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