• The Covid-19 Volunteer Testing Network is scaling up towards thousands of tests per day
• 6 labs around the country are now live with 20 more in the pipeline
• Local labs can deliver a fast-turnaround for their nearby GPs and care home workers
• One lab in the network identified an outbreak in a community care provider with asymptomatic staff testing positive
• Underscores the vital importance of regular screening of healthcare workers who might otherwise unknowingly be spreading the virus

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Months into the Covid-19 pandemic, the United States remains dangerously behind on testing—and we know that technology from personalized medicine can help correct the chaos.

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | With the recent outbreak of COVID-19, epidemiologists around the world are researching and creating models on how to contain the disease. Blockchain technology exemplifies its use case within epidemiology by streamlining the process of distribution and providing trustworthy data.

Bio-IT World  Earlier this week, Igneous, the SaaS data management company for file-intensive environments announced enhancements to DataDiscover and DataFlow. Igneous DataFlow now enables data-heavy organizations to move data in native format from where it lives to where it needs to be, on-premises or cloud. Igneous DataDiscover catalogs all data where it lives. Now organizations can enable end users to see their data their way and find what’s important to them.

Bio-IT World April featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including Discngine and Insilico Medicine, as well as recent attempts to combat COVID-19.

Bio-IT World | St. Jude has released a new brand and user interface for the St. Jude Cloud, an initiative the research hospital launched two years ago in collaboration with Microsoft and DNAnexus. The vision of St. Jude Cloud has significantly expanded to include a much more scalable framework for sharing for all of St. Jude data, not just the genomics data.