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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
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 Medical Officer. In his role as Chief Medical Officer, Dr.
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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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MassHealth Provides Free Telehealth Services for Women and Families During COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know:
- Maven, the largest telemedicine provider for women’s and family health, announced a new partnership with MassHealth, the Massachusetts, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
- MassHealth will provide free telemedicine appointments for members with COVID-19 symptoms with Maven’s network of obstetric/gynecologists, maternal fetal medicine specialists, pediatricians, family physicians, and general practitioners for women and families in
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Puerto Rico’s First Home Delivery Pharmacy Launches During COVID-19 Crisis
What You Need to Know:
- Pharmacy benefits manager Abarca and Triple-S Salud announced the launch of Triple-S en Casa, Puerto Rico’s first prescription home delivery program during the COVID-19 crisis.
- Developed in partnership with one of the Island's largest health plans and pharmacy networks, Triple-S en Casa lets consumers manage and order their prescriptions through an easy-to-use mobile app--and have them delivered by a local pharmacy.
Pharmacy benefits manager Abarca and
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SyTrue Offers Free AI-based Solutions to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know:
- SyTrue offers its free AI-based solutions free of charge to qualified global public health organizations to help researchers and governments battling the COVID-19 pandemic
- SyTrue has developed solutions that enable identification of disease trends, early detection, and interventions, safety-monitoring of medicinal therapies, COVID-19 knowledge extraction, and accelerated identification of patient cohorts.
The solution will support efforts to identify
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Luma Health Launches Patient-Centric Telehealth Solution with No App, Login or Portal Required
What You Should Know:
- Luma Health launches new telehealth offering for providers that need to deliver care to patients virtually, quickly and seamlessly and patients need to get that care with one click.
- Luma Health Telehealth supports real-time EHR integration to enable providers to connect virtually with, and provide care for, their patients with just one click.
Luma Health launches Luma Health Telehealth as part of its Total Patient Engagement platform. The telehealth
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NovuHealth Launches COVID-19 Rapid Response Engagement Solution
What You Should Know:
- NovuHealth has released a new rapid response engagement solution to help plans communicate vital information and plan resources with members, including at-risk populations for increased communication, such as seniors, mom-and-baby populations, members with pre-existing conditions, and those living in regional hot spots.
- Health plans are in a unique position to connect their members with the information, resources, and benefits they need. However, many health
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COVID-19 Treatment and Vaccine Tracker Identifies New Treatments & Vaccines in Development
What You Should Know:
- The Milken Institute launched an effort to track and disseminate accurate information about COVID-19 treatments and vaccines in development.
- Since launch, more than two dozen new candidates have been identified, with some progressing toward clinical trials.
The Milken Institute COVID-19 Treatment and Vaccine Tracker has
identified 16 new treatments in the pipeline along with nine new vaccine candidates
since
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Cleveland Clinic Appoints Matthew Kull Chief Information Officer
What You Should Know:
- Cleveland Clinic has appointed interim Chief Information CIO Matthew Kull as the health system’s CIO, effective immediately.
- Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic, Kull served as the SVP, CIO at Parkland Hospital in Dallas where he oversaw the expansion. strategic adoption and optimization Parkland’s Information Technology initiatives to achieve clinical quality and financial outcomes.
Cleveland Clinic
has appointed Matthew Kull as the health system’s Chief
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