What You Should Know:
- Premier survey reveals as active COVID-19 spreads to new hotspots, hospitals should prepare for a 3X to 17X surge in supply-demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Survey respondents treating COVID-19 patients say supply shortages and burn rates for PPE were among the biggest surprises and lessons learned.
- Hospitals ranked the supply of N95 respirators as their top concern with the average respondent had 23 days of N95 inventory on
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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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Travel Nurse Pay Nearly Doubles Nationwide from Coronavirus Outbreak
What You Should Know:
- As demand for nurses across the country increases to treat the coronavirus outbreak, the average weekly pay for travel nurses has nearly doubled, according to recent findings from healthcare staffing platform NurseFly.
- There was a 76% increase in average nurse pay nationwide since March, with increases of up to 90% over the average pay in Washington.
- Hospitals are paying Crisis/Pandemic rates up to $4,400 weekly to quickly staff up for the caring of
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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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Innovaccer Launches Free COVID-19 Management System to Support Early Community-Based Triage
What You Should Know:
- In order to assist providers in managing their influx and connect with more patients, Innovaccer has launched the free ‘COVID-19 Management System application with free telehealth services and analytics to assess risk profiles and triage the influx at medical practices and primary care clinics
- The application is designed to assist government and healthcare organizations in providing immediate assistance to patients through remote assessments, monitoring,
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COVID-19: 5 Steps for Health IT Teams to Accommodate New Demands
The rapid escalation of COVID-19 patient cases has created new challenges for healthcare organizations to scale up testing and care services, while also reducing risk for non-critical patients or care workers. Healthcare IT professionals are being asked to digitally transform overnight, in supporting remote workers, telemedicine, outdoor triage tents, and a surge in patients and connected devices. Here are five key steps for healthcare IT departments to take in order to accommodate the new
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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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