What You Should Know:
- More than 1500 Stanford faculty and alumni announced the launch of StartX Med COVID-19 Task Force featuring 70+ StartX Med Innovators with medical breakthroughs for the prevention, diagnostics, and treatment of coronavirus mobilize efforts to fast-track public health needs during the pandemic.
- The StartX Med COVID-19 Task Force will collaborate on outreach to government agencies, regulatory bodies and healthcare systems in the interest of public health for
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Jump Technologies Offers Hospitals Free Supply Chain Solution for Tracking COVID-19 Supplies
What You Should Know:
- Jump Technologies offers new supply chain solution free of charge to help hospitals manage utilization of critical supplies and avoid stockouts during high volume COVID-19 response.
- From a single screen, hospitals can easily see where existing supplies are located (in hospital storage or in a warehouse); track consumption by department, clinic, or user; and forecast potential stockouts.
The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has placed unique
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Blue Shield of CA Offers COVID-19 Screener and Emergency Response Assistant
What You Should Know:
- Blue Shield of California offers COVID-19 Screener and Emergency Response Assistant (COVID-19 SERA) to help handle anticipated surge of COVID-19 patients.
- The COVID-19 SERA is developed by GYANT can be customized for each health system's emergency response plan, and it is updated in real-time with latest guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO).
Blue Shield of California is offering a new digital tool
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Kyruus, GYANT Integrate to Offer AI-Assisted Provider Search and Self-Scheduling
What You Need to Know:
- Kyruus and GYANT, today announced an integration partnership to offer AI-assisted provider search and self-scheduling on health system websites.
- The partnership will enable consumers to search for clinically appropriate providers and book appointments anywhere, anytime, with automated guidance from GYANT’s virtual assistant.
Kyruus, the provider of provider search and scheduling solutions for health systems, and GYANT, the leading artificial
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Coronavirus Drives Teladoc’s Daily Virtual Medical Visits Up 50%
What You Need to Know:
- In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Teladoc Health reports that its daily virtual medical visit volume has spiked 50% over the prior week.
- Teladoc Health has provided approximately 100,000 virtual medical visits to patients in the United States in the past week.
Virtual
care provider Teladoc Health
announced that the company is experiencing unprecedented daily visit volume in
the United States as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues
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COVID-19: XRHealth Launches Virtual Reality Telehealth Supports Groups
What You Need to Know:
- In response to the growing social distancing precautions to avoid the spread of COVID-19, XRHealth is making VR telehealth support groups available for patients.
- XRHealth support groups are tailored for patients with the following conditions: Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's, breast cancer, menopause, an injury that affected motor function, anxiety, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, substance abuse, post-stroke rehabilitation, brain injury and there will also be a
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CynergisTek’s PPMS Leverages AI to Combat COVID-19 Insider Snooping
What You Need to Know:
- CynergisTek, a provider of healthcare cybersecurity and information management announced it has updated its Patient Privacy Monitoring Services (PPMS) to proactively identify and stop insider snooping related to the COVID-19 virus.
- As the number of cases continues to rise, information on patients who have been diagnosed or tested for the virus is incredibly valuable. Many healthcare organizations face the threat of unauthorized
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What Health IT Thought Leaders Say HIMSS20 Would Have Focused On—If It Had Happened
What You Need to Know:
Health IT thought leaders share what HIMSS20 would have focused On—if It had happened.
- Hot topics include health IT to address COVID-19; artificial intelligence; EHR interoperability and usability; and more.
–Kuldeep Singh Rajput, CEO of Biofourmis, Boston, Mass., which provides digital therapeutics that power personalized predictive care
“Remote monitoring platforms and clinical-grade wearables combined with artificial intelligence [AI]-based
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LogistiCare Extend Partnership with Lyft to Improve Access to Care
What You Need to Know:
- Lyft extends partnership with LogistiCare, the nation’s largest tech-enabled manager of non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) to improve access to care for patients nationwide.
- Collectively, LogistiCare and Lyft have facilitated access to millions of rides since 2017, across 48 states and DC.
The Providence Service Corporation (“Providence” or the
“Company”) (Nasdaq: PRSC) today announced that its subsidiary, LogistiCare Solutions,
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Jvion Launches AI-Powered Social Determinants of Health Solution
What You Need to Know:
- Jvion launches Social Determinants of Health solution enabling healthcare organizations to align community resources to identify gaps and social barriers to care.
- Jvion’s Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) solution is an analytics layer, featuring an interactive map built on Microsoft Azure.
- Requiring only demographic data, healthcare organizations can drill down from zip code to census tract, block, and individual-level risk to better understand the
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