What You Need to Know:
- Sykes conducts a survey of 2,000 adults across the U.S. to understand how Americans perceive telehealth today in the era of COVID-19 — and how this pandemic impacts how Americans will approach telemedicine in the future.
- 73% said they would consider using a telehealth service to be screened for COVID-19/
- More than one in ten respondents said they’ve already used a telehealth service for something related to COVID-19.
- 60% said the COVID-19
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FDA Approves Emergency Use Authorization for a 24-hour, Saliva Test for COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- The FDA has provided Emergency Use Authorization for a 24-hour, Saliva Test for COVID-19, available now to clinics, hospitals, and patients.
- In light of recent complications with and warnings for new tests, here is a quick list of information on the validated test and how it is different from existing testing and other alternatives in development:
- The saliva-based test for COVID-19 has been validated and proven as a consistent sample method.
- FDA
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athenahealth Launches COVID-19 Dashboards Tracking Lab Test Orders & High-Risk Patients
What You Should Know:
- athenahealth launches two real-time COVID-19 dashboards for the healthcare community that enable users to track and predict which hospitals may need more support based on the number of tests being performed and the number of people at risk of developing severe illness from COVID-19.
- athenahealth’s COVID-19 high-risk populations dashboard identifies concentrated areas of high-risk patients, enabling local hospitals and clinicians to prepare for the
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CommonSpirit Health Deploys COVID-19 Virtual Triage and Remote Monitoring Across Ambulatory Clinics
What You Should Know:
CommonSpirit deploys Notable Health’s COVID-19 Virtual Triage and Remote Monitoring solution across ambulatory clinics in Arizona, California, and Nevada, with plans to scale broadly across the CommonSpirit Health system in the coming weeks.
The aI-powered platform supports clinician assessment of a patient's risk for COVID-19 by transmitting clinical histories directly into the EMR and performing remote monitoring of at-risk patients throughout the care continuum.
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COVID-19 Patient Registry Launches to Monitor Symptomatic and Asymptomatic COVID-19 Patients
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
that it can help
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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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