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NSW Health Pathology reaches for the cloud to speed up COVID-19 testing – ZDNet
Urgent, priority patients can be tested and be told their results within three hours.
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Waiting 72 hours to receive COVID-19 test results can feel like forever. To speed up that process for urgent, priority patients, eHealth NSW has partnered with Microsoft to use cloud technology and artificial intelligence to reduce the waiting period to three hours.
NSW Health Pathology, which has been charged with overseeing COVID-19 testing clinics, has deployed rapid testing for COVID-19 to 35 portable point-of-care devices, so patients can be tested anywhere before…
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