What You Should Know:
- Recruitment for the first comprehensive COVID-19 national patient registry opens today for symptomatic and asymptomatic patients in the six-months following diagnosis.
- Patient data will be collected remotely for a clinical study using a blood test and a new mobile app, Obvio-19 from ObvioHealth.
ObvioHealth, a digital research company, announces the launch of a COVID-19 patient registry named Obvio-19 to monitor COVID-19 prevalence, symptoms and immune
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Shortage of N95 Masks Top Concern for Hospitals with COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- Premier survey reveals as active COVID-19 spreads to new hotspots, hospitals should prepare for a 3X to 17X surge in supply-demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Survey respondents treating COVID-19 patients say supply shortages and burn rates for PPE were among the biggest surprises and lessons learned.
- Hospitals ranked the supply of N95 respirators as their top concern with the average respondent had 23 days of N95 inventory on
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Philips Enables Providers to Remotely Screen and Monitor Patients with COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Philips provides healthcare institutions with telehealth solution to process high volume coronavirus-related healthcare requests via online screening and supports healthcare providers in the use of external call centers to offer the correct care to patients
- If medically justified, patients infected with COVID-19 can be remotely monitored via automated questionnaires about their home situation and state of health
Royal Philips announced
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Olive Lands $51M to Power AI-Powered Digital Employee Platform
What You Should Know:
- Olive, a company automates healthcare’s most robotic processes raises $51M in funding led by General Catalyst.
- Olive automates healthcare’s most costly, high-volume tasks using the building blocks of artificial intelligence: robotic process automation, computer vision, and machine learning.
- Working alongside healthcare employees, Olive is trained to think cognitively and make complex decisions faster, and more accurately than human employees
Olive,
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Cerner EHR To Power London’s 4,000-Bed Temporary Hospital for COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- The National Health Service (NHS) in England has selected Cerner to provide Cerner Millenium electronic health records (EHR) platform for a 4,000-bed temporary hospital at its 100-acre center ExCel London.
- The Millennium EHR platform will help healthcare professionals at this temporary facility access and record relevant information for COVID-19 patients in a scalable, reliable and accessible place.
- Cerner technology is already in place at Barts Health NHS
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AristaMD Raises $18M to Expand eConsults Platform to Improve Patient Outcomes
What You Should Know:
- AristaMD has raised $18 million in Series B led by Cigna Ventures and MemorialCare Innovation Fund (MCIF), with participation from Avalon Ventures, CU Healthcare Innovation Fund and Stanford Health Care.
- Now more than ever, eConsults are a crucial resource in providing fast, efficient, HIPAA-compliant, and fully scalable access to specialists.
- Annually there are around 20 million routine clinical
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FCC Chairman Unveils $200 Million COVID-19 Telehealth Program
- FCC new program would provide immediate support to healthcare facilities and patients across the country; separate connected care pilot program would study long-term role of telehealth.
- The $200 million Program would immediately support healthcare providers responding to the pandemic by providing eligible healthcare providers support to purchase telecommunications services, information services.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai today announced his plan for a
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Providence Uses Remote Patient Monitoring For 700+ COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- Providence is monitoring patients suffering from COVID-19 symptoms using Xealth’s digital health platform to deliver Twistle’s care automation and remote patient monitoring platform.
- So far, more than 700 positive or presumptive positive COVID-19 patients are already being helped with this solution at home, keeping patients safe while reducing additional stress on hospitals, emergency rooms, and front-line health care teams.
- Patients who are exhibiting
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Travel Nurse Pay Nearly Doubles Nationwide from Coronavirus Outbreak
What You Should Know:
- As demand for nurses across the country increases to treat the coronavirus outbreak, the average weekly pay for travel nurses has nearly doubled, according to recent findings from healthcare staffing platform NurseFly.
- There was a 76% increase in average nurse pay nationwide since March, with increases of up to 90% over the average pay in Washington.
- Hospitals are paying Crisis/Pandemic rates up to $4,400 weekly to quickly staff up for the caring of
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‘Pandemic Drone’ Could Detect Virus Symptoms Like COVID-19 in Crowds
What You Should Know:
- A drone to remotely detect people in crowds with infectious respiratory conditions such as COVID-19 is being developed by the University of South Australia researchers in partnership with a Canadian tech company.
- Dubbed the ‘pandemic drone’ by researchers, the UAV will be fitted with a specialized sensor and computer vision system that can monitor temperature, heart and respiratory rates to detect people sneezing and coughing in crowds, offices,
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