DENTON, Texas (PRWEB)
March 21, 2020

Leigh Hilton, PLLC announces new virtual meeting capabilities to continue serving clients amid growing COVID-19 concerns

Hilton says video conferencing is the new norm as businesses are asked to help with social distancing

Leigh Hilton, PLLC, an estate planning, elder law, and probate law firm with offices in Denton, Aubrey, and Bartonville, is now offering virtual meetings to continue serving clients while adhering to disaster declarations and social distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The firm, which has been serving Denton County for more than a decade, is still open. They will meet with clients in person, via phone conference, or with video conferencing platforms such as Zoom and Facebook.

Additionally, Leigh Hilton, PLLC is offering online versions of its educational materials and popular seminars.

“As a nation, we are in uncharted territory as we learn all we can about how best to prevent the spread of the coronavirus — especially among our elderly population,” Leigh Hilton said. “My team cares about everyone’s safety and well-being, which is why we are adjusting the way we do business.”

Hilton added, “Stay safe. When you need our help, trust that we are only a few clicks away.”

More About Virtual Meetings with Leigh Hilton, PLLC

Leigh Hilton, PLLC has made a name for itself by helping clients plan for the two most important things in their life: everything they own and everyone they love. At the heart of that is one-on-one, face-to-face interaction, whether it be in one of their three offices or at ongoing speaking engagements designed to deliver practical advice everyone can understand. Virtual meetings are the next best thing given the coronavirus crisis.

Rather than feel like they are disconnected from their estate planning attorney, video conferencing allows clients to connect with their attorney in real-time from practically anywhere with crisp video and reliable sound quality. All that’s needed is a computer or smartphone and a reliable Internet connection.

Virtual meetings are free to use and only take a few minutes to get started.

About Leigh Hilton

Leigh Hilton is an estate planning attorney in Denton, Texas. As an Accredited Estate Planner® with nearly 30 years of experience, she has helped over 6,000 families protect the assets that they leave to loved ones from divorce, creditors, lawsuits, and predators. She has also helped over 350 implement the plans that she has prepared after the death of a loved one and helped over 1,200 families implement the plans prepared by other attorneys. She has authored three books, one titled, “Who Gets Your Stuff When You Die?” and two on Alzheimer’s Disease: “You’re Not Alone: Living with Alzheimer’s Disease” and “You’re Not Alone: Living as an Alzheimer’s Caregiver.” Leigh Hilton, PLLC has offices in Denton, Aubrey, and Bartonville, Texas.

For more information, go to https://dentonestateplanninglawyer.com/ or call (940) 387-8800.

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PHILADELPHIA (PRWEB)
March 21, 2020

As the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to accelerate across the country, Temple University Hospital (TUH), its Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, and the Temple Lung Center have taken proactive steps to protect its staff and patients using HGE Health’s COVID Care symptom tracking platform and triage/care coordination services. Temple is now enrolling patients, faculty, staff, frontline workers and their families at risk for or experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 in HGE Health’s platform to remotely monitor them while they are social distancing or quarantined at home. Additionally, individuals will be monitored during their convalescence at home following hospitalization for COVID-19 to ensure continued resolution of their symptoms. The use of HGE’s COVID-19 solution provides close monitoring of the patient’s daily symptoms and risk factors while preventing unnecessary staff exposure to COVID-19.

“We have extensive experience with monitoring thousands of patients on a daily basis that live with COPD and following lung transplantation. We’ve now leveraged those 17 years of experience and expertise into a scalable and easy-to-use COVID-19 engagement, monitoring, and triage platform,” said Michael J. Markus, PhD, the CEO of HGE Health. “We are now actively working with Temple to support their patients, at-risk individuals, and the healthcare workers who are working night and day to care for the community at large. The expanded use of our platform is already enabling Temple to remotely quarantine potential COVID-19 patients, and provide them with care in their own homes, where they will not expose others to the virus.”

COVID-19 has now spread to over 110 countries around the world, infecting more than 120,000 and killing more than 4,000. The World Health Organization (“WHO”) recognizes that the severity of Coronavirus is linked to the age and health condition of patients and has recently declared it a pandemic. Patients of advanced age (at least 60 years old) and diagnosed with a co-morbid disease are the most likely to experience a severe infection of Coronavirus. HGE Health’s digital platform and technology-enabled services, called HGE Care, allows physicians to remotely care for patients from anywhere in the nation, and help patients better understand and manage changes in their symptoms. Thanks to daily digital interaction with their healthcare team, patients are engaged in their own symptom management, and log their symptoms on the HGE Care platform over 80% – 90% of the time. Patients enjoy peace of mind that each day they experience a change from their typical symptoms, their own physician/care team will provide same-day feedback, helping patients breathe easier, avoiding ER visits and hospital admissions, and enjoy an improved quality of life, all while reducing overall healthcare costs for patients and their health plan.

Editor’s Note: HGE Health Care Solutions is the exclusive licensee to certain Temple University intellectual property.

Dr. Gerard Criner, Director of the Temple Lung Center, is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of HGE Health Care Solutions.

Temple University and Dr. Criner hold minority equity positions in the company.

About HGE Health

Headquartered in Fort Washington, PA, HGE Health harnesses its deep experience in chronic disease management and digital health in pulmonary disease, telemedicine, and mobile health to develop a clinical services platform that delivers better care faster at a much lower cost for patients, physicians and payors. Built on clinical protocols developed and supported by 16 years of research, the company’s technology has compiled the longest-running and world’s largest longitudinal data set of COPD symptoms, interventions and clinical management to help physicians provide care for a geographically and socio-economically diverse COPD and pulmonary patient population.

About Temple Health

Temple University Health System (TUHS) is a $2.2 billion academic health system dedicated to providing access to quality patient care and supporting excellence in medical education and research. The Health System consists of Temple University Hospital (TUH); TUH-Episcopal Campus; TUH-Jeanes Campus; TUH-Northeastern Campus; The Hospital of Fox Chase Cancer Center and Affiliates, an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center; Temple Transport Team, a ground and air-ambulance company; Temple Physicians, Inc., a network of community-based specialty and primary-care physician practices; and Temple Faculty Practice Plan, Inc., TUHS’s physician practice plan comprised of more than 500 full-time and part-time academic physicians in 20 clinical departments. TUHS is affiliated with the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.

Temple Health refers to the health, education and research activities carried out by the affiliates of Temple University Health System (TUHS) and by the Katz School of Medicine. TUHS neither provides nor controls the provision of health care. All health care is provided by its member organizations or independent health care providers affiliated with TUHS member organizations. Each TUHS member organization is owned and operated pursuant to its governing documents.

It is the policy of Temple University Health System that there shall be no exclusion from or participation in, and no one denied the benefits of, the delivery of quality medical care on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, disability, age, ancestry, color, national origin, physical ability, level of education, or source of payment.

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ORLANDO, Fla. (PRWEB)
March 20, 2020

Vesta Teleradiology has announced today that, despite the recent events related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), operations will continue to move forward as usual, allowing valuable clients, their physicians and patients, access to much-needed support during this time of uncertainty and healthcare need. Vesta is partnering with healthcare providers, hospitals, communities and their partners nationwide to ensure respective radiology needs are being managed thoroughly and efficiently. Vesta’s radiology services are provided by remote, state-licensed radiologists, reducing on-site staffing needs while mitigating risks for facilities and staff.

Vesta’s operations have been reorganized to provide a safe working environment for all employees while providing uninterrupted support 24×7 to Vesta’s valuable clients. To help imaging facilities during the current crisis, Vesta announced today that it is waiving setup costs for teleradiology, even for temporary backup coverage.

Vesta’s Locums department is working with clients to help with temporary coverage of onsite physicians as well as Technologists. In addition to teleradiology services, Vesta through its Telemedicine department currently provides coverage in Cardiology, Neurology, ICU, Psychiatry, Dermatology, Pulmonology and Allergy specialties.

About Vesta Teleradiology:

Vesta brings you teleradiology solutions and services, providing 24x7x365 access to highly qualified board-certified radiologists through a secure PACS. Vesta, a top 10 telemedicine company in the United States, offers comprehensive and affordable radiology and other telemedicine services for its partners. Vesta has been a pioneer in supportive diagnostic workflow technology and quality diagnostic services, steadfast in its passion to remain at the forefront of innovation in healthcare.

Prospective clients are offered a free test drive of Vesta’s teleradiology service.

For more information, please visit http://www.VestaRad.com.

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Yoshua Bengio, Scientific Director of Mila

The COVID-19 crisis gives us an opportunity and a profound motivation to act selflessly and together for the common good, collaborating with the only objective to quickly save as many lives as possible.

MONTREAL, Quebec (PRWEB)
March 20, 2020

The primary objective of the Mila AI taskforce is to bring together an interdisciplinary team of researchers in machine learning, bioinformatics, immunology, virology and vaccine design to create open source, data-driven tools that could be deployed in current and future outbreaks.

“The COVID-19 crisis gives us an opportunity and a profound motivation to act selflessly and together for the common good, collaborating with the only objective to quickly save as many lives as possible,” says Yoshua Bengio, scientific director of Mila. “Let us remember that spirit when, hopefully, we go back to more normal lives. That spirit is also the spirit of science, where the focus is on the joy of understanding, sharing and discovering solutions together.”

Many researchers and partners in our network are interested in participating in projects to fight COVID-19. In an effort to coordinate, they have identified at least 5 primary research axes against which they are already progressing:

Omic profiling of COVID-19 progression mechanisms

Guy Wolf and Irina Rish (Université de Montréal), professors at Mila, are leading this project which leverages data analysis tools to provide mechanistic understanding of the COVID-19 disease progression in order to assess risk of given medical/patient profiles, as well as to help identify binding targets for antiviral agents and potential vaccines. The researchers are looking for proteomic and transcriptomic data together with meta information that will enable them to disentangle the impact of age, gender, and other biomedical factors on the interaction and severity of the COVID-19 disease. One example of an active research question is to understand the apparent resilience of young children to severe infection, which is somewhat atypical for such epidemics.

Data-efficient deep learning to better model emerging biology

Led by Sébastien Giguère from InVivo AI. The COVID-19 outbreak offers a solemn reminder of how little we know about emerging biology. Novel algorithms are needed for these types of data poor environments. Launched in 2018, InVivo AI is developing novel algorithms capable of learning from small and noisy datasets. In light of the COVID-19 outbreak, the startup is leveraging their platform to learn models of pathways in the immune system to better predict immune response. The team is working on modeling proteasomal cleavage, TAP transport, antigen binding to MHC, antigen processing to the cell surface and recognition of MHC-antigen complexes by T-Cells and B-cells, with the goal of providing insight into immunogenic regions of the virus.

Machine learning for therapeutics discovery

The teams of Yoshua Bengio (UdeM), Jian Tang (HEC Montréal), graduate student Maksym Korablyov (UdeM), and the Mila startup InVivo AI, has developed a deep reinforcement learning system which can quickly evaluate billions of candidate molecules. The approach can gradually modify the molecular structure by adding or removing building blocks in order to converge toward new molecular structures that can bind a target protein. The Mila team is looking for collaborators with expertise in deep reinforcement learning and in drug discovery to help with their research.

Mapping the Landscape of AI + COVID-19

Sasha Luccioni (UdeM), postdoctoral researcher at Mila and her team are working with researchers from UN Global Pulse to map the landscape of current and proposed research papers that use AI to counter the COVID-19 pandemic. The article, which will be published on March 23rd, covers the many facets of the crisis, including molecular modeling, epidemiology and diagnosis, in order to pinpoint the most impactful ways in which AI can be used and the approaches that are being explored.

Data Mining of COVID-19 Related Tweets

Led by Reihaneh Rabbany(McGill), professor at Mila, this research project aims to analyse mentions of COVID-19 in Twitter, in order to discover temporal and spatial trends as well as common mentions and keywords linked to the phenomena surrounding the global pandemic.

“This is an exceptional situation that requires exceptional means, and AI can contribute greatly to many of the efforts deployed to mitigate this crisis,” said Valérie Pisano, President and CEO of Mila. Mila’s resources will be made available to support this effort led by researchers, start-ups and organisations here in Québec and around the world.”

Among Mila’s partners contributing to this effort, Element AI is sharing access to its computing resources (GPUs, CPUs, Storage) to facilitate and accelerate ongoing research and investigations by Mila and InVivo AI.

Even though several researchers have already demonstrated their interest and have begun to get involved in the projects, we are seeking additional collaborators from all areas of computer science and health sciences to strengthen these projects. To join the effort, you are encouraged to reachout at covid19research@mila.quebec.

Researchers who are working on a project involving COVID-19 and who would like support from the AI community are also encouraged to contact the same email address.

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About Mila

Founded in 1993 by Professor Yoshua Bengio, Mila rallies the highest academic concentration of research and development in deep and reinforcement learning. Since 2017, Mila is the result of a partnership between the Université de Montréal and McGill University with École Polytechnique de Montréal and HEC Montréal. Mila is a unique space for innovation in artificial intelligence that uses interactions with industry and fosters the emergence of start-ups while integrating the social impacts of the technology into its projects. https://mila.quebec/

About InVivo AI

Founded in 2018, InVivo AI is developing novel computational methods for drug design. In collaboration with both industry and academic partners, InVivo AI leverages their technologies to design drug-like molecules predicted to satisfy key criteria, enabling rapid and cost effective iteration towards novel drug candidates. https://www.invivoai.com

About Element AI

Element AI is a global developer of AI software that helps people and machines work smarter, together. Founded in 2016 by serial entrepreneurs including JF Gagné and A.M.Turing Award recipient, Yoshua Bengio, PhD, Element AI turns cutting-edge research and industry expertise into software solutions that exponentially learn and improve. Element AI maintains a strong connection to academia through research collaborations and takes a leadership position in policymaking around the impact of technology on society. https://www.elementai.com

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DALLAS (PRWEB)
March 20, 2020

CommunityMed Urgent Care, based in Dallas, has rolled out a virtual waiting room for their medical clinics. The virtual waiting room lets patients present online, complete registration paperwork (including the latest COVID screening) provide IDs and insurance cards, get their place in the queue, wait for their turn, and get signaled that their clean exam room is ready. All of this is done via text and online interaction. In this era of social distancing, this tool is an effective method to bring patients straight back to their exam room.

“All a patient has to do is text ‘Hello’ to the phone number on the banner outside the clinic or on our website. That starts the process,” says Birken Olson, the CEO of CommunityMed. The tool will then walk the patient through the check-in and registration process, apprise the facility that the patient visit is underway, and let the clinic staff signal the patient when it is their turn to come back.

Patient paperwork is completed on the patient’s phone with a custom web form that minimizes the paperwork for the patient. The patient can even ask for help or signal that they are having issues with the electronic registration.

“This keeps our patients from having to interact with other patients, and lets the clinical staff focus efforts on keeping patient areas cleaned and ready for the next visitor,” say Dr. Gregory Blomquist, the Company’s Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Blomquist continues, “It goes beyond a simple text-when-it’s-your-turn solution that others have where patients must still undergo paperwork and contact with other patients. This is a fully virtual system that allows patients to minimize contact and maximize social distance.”

CommunityMed Urgent Care operates walk-in medical clinics throughout North Texas in smaller towns in the North Texas region. With clinics in Melissa, Prosper, Crossroads, Princeton, Haslet, Arlington, and Wichita Falls, CommunityMed offers first-class service, top quality care, and a home-town spirit. Visit the company website at https://CommunityMedCare.com.

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WHITEHOUSE, N.J. (PRWEB)
March 20, 2020

My heart goes out to those across our nation and around the world who have directly suffered loss from COVID-19. Having also lost a loved one recently through similar circumstances – underlying conditions compounded by a virus – I truly empathize.

Over the last few days, I have felt a gamut of negative emotions just like many have: fear, anxiety, uncertainty. In contrast, I would like to acknowledge that today is the first day of Spring, a season symbolizing rebirth, renewal, growth, and most important: hope.

In this moment, I am not thinking like an American, but as a human. This virus does not discriminate; it affects all humans in some way, here in America and globally. And we all must play a role in conquering COVID-19 now, and in the future.

Here at Delia Associates, as a branding firm, we offer up this complementary emblem as a symbol of hope for all on this first day of Spring. Let this mark represent our global solidarity and conviction to do whatever is necessary, as individuals, businesses, communities, and nations, to arrest this disease.

Feel free to download and display this emblem (https://www.delianet.com/united-together-against-covid-19/) as a pledge to support all measures that will help lead to the containment and ultimate suppression of COVID-19. We owe it to those who we have already lost. We owe it to those who are sick or out of work. We owe it to our health care professionals at the front lines. We owe it to each other. Let this mark and this moment remind us that we are all connected and, standing together, we will turn the tide and prevail.

Join me in observance of our united resolve on this first day of Spring. Join me in hope.

Ed Delia, President

Delia Associates

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