What You Should Know:
- FDA issues alert about accuracy concerns with Abbott’s ID Now COVID-19 rapid point-of-care tests that could return false negative results.
- The FDA reports it is sharing early information available about potential inaccurate results in the spirit of transparency and is working with Abbott to analyze the information gathered to date.
On late Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an alert to the public about potential inaccurate
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UCSF and AWS Collaborate on 2 COVID-19 Genome Sequencing Projects
What You Should Know:
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the University of
California, San Francisco (UCSF) collaborate on two projects
involving sequencing the genomes of the viruses infecting hundreds of
COVID-19 patients in the Bay Area using CRISPR gene-technology in a clinical
research study.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
announced this week it has offered their support and donated service credits
provided by the AWS Diagnostic
Development Initiative for
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SubjectWell Launches Patient Registry of 10k+ Patients for COVID-19 Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- SubjectWell launches a patient registry list of 10,000 individuals in the US interested in participating in COVID-19 clinical trials and research.
- The new COVID-19 patient registry will accelerate the patient recruitment process for COVID-19 research, giving researchers access to interested individuals who could randomize for various types of trials, whether they are healthy volunteers with no previous exposure to COVID-19, currently sick with the virus, or who
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Banner Health Launches Virtual Waiting Room Across Network
What You Should Know:
- Banner Health deploys a first-of-its-kind virtual waiting room using LifeLink’s mobile chatbot technology to interact with Banner patients for both in-person and telehealth appointments.
- Conversational mobile technology supports COVID-19 social distancing guidelines and allows patients to safely access care across a network of 1500 physicians.
Banner Health, one of the largest nonprofit health care systems in the country, today announced the successful
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Digital Defense Offer $1M in Free Ransomware Vulnerability Assessments During COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare organizations not currently served by Digital Defense can sign-up to receive a free assessment over the next 60 days. Ransomware assessments will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis or until the $1 million offer is exhausted whichever comes first.
Digital Defense, Inc. today announced a free, $1 million dollar offer to help healthcare organizations prevent ransomware attacks and maintain focus on important, life-saving
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Innovaccer Launches FHIR Enabled Data Activation Platform to Power Innovation to Care as One
What You Should Know:
- In accordance with ONC's latest interoperability rule, 21st Century Cures Act, Innovaccer has launched its FHIR® Enabled Data Activation Platform.
- The platform provides a rich set of capabilities from scalable FHIR application programming interfaces (APIs), optimized FHIR data lake, best-in-class API gateway, hundreds of analytical enrichments like HEDIS scores, and cloud infrastructure.
- The platform is already deployed at several of our customer sites
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Post COVID-19 Care: 1 in 2 Adults Will Change How They Access Care
What You Should Know:
- Sapphire Digital survey reveals following the COVID-19 pandemic, 1 in 2 adults will change how they access care including care selection decision and cost concerns.
- Nearly half (47%) of Americans age 18-64 surveyed are more concerned about the cost of health care now than they were before COVID-19.
Nearly 1 in 2 adults (47%) will change how they access care
following the COVID-19
pandemic, according to results of a survey by Sapphire Digital
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Verato Launches SDOH-Driven Solution to Support COVID-19 Contact Tracing
What You Should Know:
- Verato announced an identity information service that helps with COVID-19 contact tracing by making social determinants of health (SDOH) data more complete.
- According to a recent report, as much as half of the positive COVID-19 test results lack enough data to support contact tracing. By filling in that missing data, we can shorten the time between receiving positive test results and having data that allows for rapid response to contain the virus.
Verato,
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3 Major Challenges Plaguing Europe’s Digital Healthcare Efforts
As the concept of digital healthcare goes global, healthcare stakeholders across geographies are evaluating new tools, while innovators are navigating pathways to implement advanced technologies into healthcare. Over the past decade, the European healthcare system has progressed leaps and bounds.
However, the sector is bound by some major challenges including the aging population, greater prevalence of chronic diseases, shortage of healthcare workers, and financial discrepancies of care. In
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COVID-19 Sparks Consumer Fears of Seeking In-Person Medical Care
What You Should Know:
- Consumer fears of seeking in-person medical care is rising as states begin reopening from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data from Black Book Research and Sage Growth Partners.
- The data reveals that while some may delay care due to concerns about potential exposure to COVID-19, others are willing to leverage telehealth – though this is not a one-size-fits-all solution.
As states begin reopening businesses and the number of coronavirus
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