Calling All Innovators: Use Our Technology to Fix the Covid Test Results System

Like many Americans, we were alarmed to read about the broken data flows for Covid 19 testing and results. As a recent New York Times article pointed out, “The data is moving slower than the disease.” All the broken steps add up, with test results being delivered 11 to 14 days after testing, too late for disease management.

But frankly we were not surprised. Our company, GLYNT.AI has built a software product for exactly this challenge. We use AI to accurately transform documents into data. Give us a pdf, fax, or scan, and our AI technology returns clean, labelled data. You want the Patient Name? GLYNT returns “Jane Smith.”

So, as you can imagine, we’ve seen a lot of antiquated systems. Our job is to use the legacy systems as they are, add GLYNT technology, and easily connect the data that was previously trapped in documents to other data and systems.

At low Covid test volumes, the existing data connections were working for 90% of the flow. But now, every healthcare system is doing testing at a vastly larger scale. This has introduced a lot of frictions, such as lost faxes, missing data, and more manual data entry.

One source of friction is the fax machine; as the New York Times described, this antiquated office appliance is still being asked to process millions of documents daily.

But, there is a modern solution for all of these frictions. GLYNT is integrated and partnered with etherFAX, which provides a modern, secure fax platform. Together GLYNT and etherFAX have two of the three pieces needed to break through the testing bottleneck. We can send and receive faxes reliably, with validation of receipt. We can capture all the data available on the Covid test documents. We can stream that data and the original documents to their next destination, digitally.

Give us a test center or healthcare entity, and we can configure and customize the solution to your local needs. We can set it up in just a few days.

Here’s a quick video of the GLYNT + etherFAX solution in action.

BUT: We need help. We need innovators to connect the stream of data produced from our technologies to the right database, and to route documents to the right recipient. Together we can organize and tag the data for insightful analytics, deliver test results more quickly, and create the stream of data epidemiologists need to quickly update and refine their models. Working together, we can reduce the part of the testing backlog that arises from slow data.