What You Should Know:
- TransformativeMed offers free COVID-19 tracking and workflow solution to Seattle-based hospitals and medical centers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The application works with electronic health records to track patient medical tests; helps with coronavirus patient workflows.
- COVID-19/CORES is already being used at UW Medicine, which includes the University of Washington Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center.
TransformativeMed, which transforms
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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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COVID-19: MEDITECH Offers Expanse Ambulatory Expanse Customers It’s Scheduled Virtual Visits Functionality Free of Charge
What You Should Know:
MEDITECH offers Expanse Ambulatory and Patient Portal
users complimentary deployment of our Scheduled Virtual Visits functionality
for a six-month period.
This solution, deployed through MEDITECH’s rapid response
team, can assist customers in battling the spread of the COVID-19, reducing
unnecessary risk to others and identifying the patients in need of care.
In an effort to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic, MEDITECH announced it will offer all
customers
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CommonSpirit Health Suspends Patient Billing for COVID-19 Testing & Treatment
What You Need to Know:
- CommonSpirit Health suspends all patient billing for testing and treatment for COVID-19 across 21 states.
- "The last thing our patients should worry about if they experience symptoms characteristic of this coronavirus is the cost of seeking care," said Lloyd H. Dean, CEO of CommonSpirit Health.
CommonSpirit Health,
a nonprofit, Catholic health system announced it will suspend sending
patient bills related to the testing and treatment of
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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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RCM: Boosting Practice Revenue Through Patient Financial Clearance
Medical practices have to balance many things. But one of the biggest balancing acts, which often gets overshadowed by patient care, involves keeping finances in the black, by ensuring revenue cycle management (RCM) flows smoothly. Whether practices are solo independent ventures or large, multi-specialty networks, the struggle is real.
When we discuss the most impactful ways to keep a practice’s bottom line in check — and keep the revenue cycle healthy — most people think of back-office
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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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Orion Health Launches Coronavirus Outbreak Monitoring Platform Globally
What You Need to Know:
- Orion Health launches coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak monitoring platform to its existing and future customers globally at no cost.
- Over time the monitoring platform will increasingly use artificial intelligence (AI) to allow providers to identify patients at risk of deterioration and optimize their care. This will allow resources to be allocated to those most in need.
Orion Health has
developed the first comprehensive coronavirus pandemic
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IBM Watson Health, EBSCO Information Services Launch Integrated Clinical Decision Support Solution
What You to Need to Know:
IBM Watson Health and EBSCO Health Resources will
announce the merging of their respective platforms – DynaMed and IBM Micromedex
– into a single, high-value global solution called DynaMed and Micromedex with
Watson.
By combining the real-world evidence available on these
platforms, with AI and natural language processing, this new solution will
enable care providers to easily access information to inform both diagnostic
and operational decisions.
IBM
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