SEMA4 – COVID-19 Viral and Antibody Testing

James Coffin, PhD, President and Chief Operating Officer at Sema4, a patient-center health intelligence digital company, discusses the new ability of the company to handle up to 15,000 COVID-19 viral and 4000 antibody tests a day with 24 hour turnaround for COVID and 48 for the antibody test.  He talks about how Sema4 is working directly with higher education, assisting government and large businesses to get students, staff, and workers back to school and work safely.  There is also Sema4 Works, an app that enables symptom tracking through simple self-reporting of symptoms by registered individuals.

James Coffin, PhD, President and Chief Operating Officer, Sema4.
James Coffin also known as Jamie, is a pioneer in the healthcare and life sciences sector. He recently served as Chief Executive Officer and President at Source Medical Solutions, the #1 provider of practice management and EMR solutions in the Ambulatory Surgical space. Previously, Jamie was Worldwide Vice President and General Manager at Dell, leading the Global Healthcare Life Science (HCLS) business over a six-year period to become the #1 healthcare IT services company in the world with $3.5b in revenue, and a workforce of ~13,000 people. He pioneered Dell’s efforts to apply leading-edge information technology into areas including EMR, data analytics, high performance and cloud computing, personalized medicine, claims processing, medical imaging, and pharmaceutical and biotech drug discovery. Prior to Dell, he served as Worldwide Vice President of IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences and grew the division to a $6.5b business. He was also a Director at Terascala Inc.