What You Should Know:
- Scammers may be trafficking counterfeit or faulty protective equipment (PPE) during COVID-19 in what is now known as the “grey market.”
- Premier outlines five common types of COVID-19 grey market scams for hospitals to avoid and key best practices to avoid them as hospital brace for the surge in COVID-19 patients.
Healthcare providers are working around the clock to safely
care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic,
and the last thing they need to
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HCA, Google Cloud Partner to Launch COVID-19 Open Data Platform for Hospitals
What You Should Know:
- HCA Healthcare announces a partnership with Google Cloud and SADA on new COVID-19 open data platform named the COVID-19 National Response Portal to help communities respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The COVID-19 National Response Portal will help accelerate analysis and response by aggregating data on ICU bed and ventilator utilization, testing results, and total number of patient visits to America’s hospital systems.
Nashville, TN-based HCA
Healthcare,
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Exscientia to Screen 15,000 Drugs in Search for Coronavirus Treatment
What You Should Know:
- Exscientia announced a joint transatlantic initiative with Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron facility and Calibr, a division of Scripps Research (USA), to screen nearly every known approved and investigational drug against key COVID-19 drug targets to progress compounds that could rapidly become viable drugs for the rapid treatment of the coronavirus.
- Exscientia has gained access to Calibr’s world’s leading collection of 15,000 clinically-ready
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Catapult Health, Evive Partner to Direct Patients to Nearest COVID-19 Testing Sites
What You Should Know:
- To connect as many people as possible with nearby COVID-19 testing sites, the enterprise communications platform, Evive, is banding together with Catapult Health to introduce thousands of patients to Evive.Care’s national database of test centers.
- Catapult’s group of approximately 100 nurse practitioners are using the Evive.Care website to direct those with COVID-19 symptoms to testing centers.
Evive, a provider of
enterprise communications and benefits
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SV Health Investors Forms $90M Medtech Convergence Fund
What You Should Know:
- SV Health Investors forms $90M Medtech Convergence Fund (MCF) focused on the increasing convergence of medical technology with software, telecommunications, and new service models to create solutions to some of the most significant health challenges.
- MCF will focus on early-stage, novel device and technology solutions that are differentiated in usability and outcomes with meaningful barriers to entry through IP, design, and clinical data.
SV Health
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SonderMind Raises $27M to Expand Behavioral Health Marketplace
What You Should Know:
- Today, SonderMind, a 500-strong integrated network of community behavioral health professionals announced a $27 million Series B financing.
- With a goal of making behavioral health more accessible, available and utilized, SonderMind is very active easing the minds of the worried well and enabling a value proposition for therapists (to the benefit of patients) that is pushing therapy beyond the better-heeled patient that can afford self-pay to the bulk of the
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Resilinc, Premier Launch Healthcare Exchange to Help Hospitals Access Supplies and Ease Shortages During COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Resilinc and Premier Inc. launch healthcare exchange to help hospitals access supplies and ease shortages during COVID-19.
- The exchange platform, in collaboration with Stanford Medicine, will launch in mid-April and is now accepting applications for providers and industry groups to join at no cost.
- Providers can apply to join The Exchange in under 10 minutes at https://theexchange.resilinc.com/healthcare/pre-registration/, and each provider can list items
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Mayo Clinic in Florida Uses Autonomous Vehicles to Transport COVID-19 Test Samples
What You Should Know:
The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA), Beep
Inc. and NAVYA partner with Mayo Clinic to use autonomous vehicles to safely
transport COVID-19 samples on their Jacksonville Campus.
Since March 30th, up to four autonomous
vehicles began operating along an initial route, in full autonomous mode
without attendants or other people onboard, to transport COVID-19 tests from a
drive-thru testing site to a processing laboratory on Mayo Clinic campus.
The
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Welkin Health Appoints Dr. Adrian Rawlinson Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Adrian Rawlinson, Chief Medical Officer at Wellkin Health
What You Should Know:
- Wellkin Health appoints former him and hers executive Dr. Adrian Rawlinson as the company’s new Chief Medical Officer.
- In his new role as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Rawlinson will focus on establishing a Clinical Advisory Board and Clinical User Group.
Welkin Health, a San Francisco-based digital health company, announced the appointment of Dr. Adrian Rawlinson to the company as Chief
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AHA, AVIA Launch Free COVID-19 Digital Response Pulse to Support Members on Front-Line
What You Should Know:
- Today the American Hospital Association (AHA) and AVIA, a digital transformation partner for healthcare organizations across the country, announced the launch of the COVID-19 Digital Response Pulse.
- This online tool, free to AHA members, will enable 5,000 hospitals across the country to determine the types of digital tools they need immediately to confront COVID-19 clinically and operationally and provide guidance on how they can scale the new solutions they
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