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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Orbita Expands COVID-19 Chatbot Screener to Support Front-Line Response Demands
What You Should Know:
- Orbita expands COVID-19 bot solutions to support new front-line response demands, reaching millions in need.
- Deployed to your website as a text chatbot, educates patients and screens symptoms seamlessly across web browsers with content from the CDC and other clinically vetted sources.
- In addition to the screener and knowledge base, the navigator tool directs patients to custom endpoints such as virtual visits, appointment scheduling, a live chat agent, or
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CarePort Launches COVID-19 Solution for Care Transitions
What You Should Know:
- Allscripts subsidiary CarePort launches a solution built for the COVID-19 epidemic that will make transitioning patients between health care providers safer.
- The COVID-19 Transitions of Care Hub will provide visibility into COVID-19 hospitalizations across CarePort’s 1,000 hospitals with 180,000 post-acute providers. It will also help hospitals find nursing homes and post-acute care for COVID-19 patients – an issue that has created a bottleneck in hospitals as
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Apervita Launches Deep Encryption Tech to Stop Payer, Provider Cyber Threats
What You Should Know:
- Apervita establishes first cloud-based healthcare platform for payers and providers to offer deep encryption of health data.
- Additionally, Apervita’s Deep Encryption feature meets requirements of the Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) recent Information Blocking final rule, which calls for granular, PHI field-level privacy to support data segmentation, while still allowing for data to be accessible.
Apervita, the leading
platform for value-based
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Wolters Kluwer Launches Global COVID-19 Search Intensity Monitoring Map
What You Should Know:
- Wolters Kluwer arms coronavirus efforts with the launch of a global COVID-19 Search Intensity Monitoring Map using UpToDate that shows how often COVID-19 topics are searched by doctors, nurses and other clinicians globally.
- Cross-disciplinary teams at Wolters Kluwer developed the interactive map by analyzing how often specific questions related to COVID-19 are searched by doctors, nurses and other clinicians globally. This leverages global search activity
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GetWellNetwork, Cerner Deploy Free COVID-19 Solutions to All Clients
What You Should Know:
- GetWellNetwork deploys complimentary COVID-19 management modules to millions of clinicians on Cerner to manage and slow the spread of the virus and impact millions of patients.
- The new solutions are designed to help patients track symptoms at home and communicate with care teams as they self-monitor or self-quarantine. The tools also help providers streamline outreach and education to large numbers of patients, monitor symptoms and triage patients to the right
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Charges for All Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients May Reach Up to $1.4 Trillion
What You
Should Know:
- FAIR Health brief finds the total costs for all hospitalized COVID-19 patients range from a low of $362 billion in charges and $139 billion in estimated allowed amounts to a high of $1.449 trillion in charges and $558 billion in estimated allowed amounts, depending on the incidence rate of the infection in the US population.
- The total average charge per COVID-19 patient requiring an inpatient stay is $73,300 and the total average estimated allowed amount per
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FCC Launches Hospital Robocall Advisory Panel to Combat Robocalls Targeting Hospitals
What You Should Know:
- The Federal Communications Commission (“Commission”) announces the formation of a new federal advisory committee, the Hospital Robocall Protection Group (“Group”).
- The FCC is seeking nominations for the Hospital Robocall Protection Group to establish best practices combat unlawful robocalls made to hospitals using unlawful robocall mitigation techniques.
The Federal Communications
Commission today solicited nominations for the Hospital
Robocall Protection
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AstraZeneca Selects BrightInsight’s IoT Platform to Focus on Chronic Disease Management
What You Should Know:
- AstraZeneca selects the BrightInsight Platform to build and manage its digital health solutions within a regulatory-compliant environment
- Digital health represents a major opportunity to alleviate some of the biggest concerns in healthcare today—many of which are being amplified due to COVID 19—including the length and cost of clinical trials, better remote testing, and tracking of patients, access to data and delivery of care.
- AstraZeneca and others are
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