Dear Friends, On behalf of myself and the whole AFORAM staff, I want to wish you a happy and healthy Passover or Easter. It is a challenge to live during the time of the coronavirus with many families having to spend the holiday separated from their loved ones. Though I am fortunate that my immediate…
Cordio Medical today announced that it will begin a clinical trial at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center on an app-based artificial intelligence (AI) system that analyzes speech to diagnose and remotely monitor COVID-19 patients. Assuming it passes scientific muster, the technology could be used to help treat self-quarantined patients who are likely to have COVID-19 but…
A small, select group of soldiers belonging to the Special Operations Unit of Israel’s Intelligence Division visited Rambam Health Care Campus. Armed with work tools and electronic equipment, the soldiers briefly took control of the rooms in which the hospital recently raced to establish a second dedicated and isolated coronavirus department. The Special Operation Unit…
Intel Israel has donated NIS 1.25 million (about $339,114) to Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa for the purchase of an automated coronavirus testing machine, the company announced on Monday. The machine, called the Genomic STARlet by Hamilton Robotics, will help increase the number of tests processed for the diagnosis of COVID-19, the disease that…
Researchers at Rambam Health Care Campus and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have joined forces to investigate whether a method for pooling test samples for COVID-19 can provide faster and more timely results. March 19, 2020 A team of researchers from Rambam Health Care Campus and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have successfully…
