Never before has health informatics played a greater role in public health than during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Health IT industry is certainly challenged due to the overall disruption to the healthcare system, the pandemic undoubtedly underscores the opportunity and importance of health informatics, such as telehealth, remote patient monitoring, patient engagement, AI-based drug discovery, precision medicine, and clinical decision support, but nowhere more pressing than the fields of
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CVS Health, UCLA Health Partner to Bolster Hospital Capacity for COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- CVS Health announced it is working with hospitals and providers, including major systems like UCLA Health, to support their solutions for creating much-needed hospital bed capacity during the pandemic.
- Hospitals around the country are expanding their capacity to meet the anticipated needs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Current estimates project that hospitals nationwide need to increase capacity by more than 36,000 hospital beds.
- In addition,
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Health IT’s Vital Role in Controlling The Spread of COVID-19
The healthcare system in the United States is becoming overwhelmed as a result of COVID-19 and there is no doubt that this epidemic will test the limits of healthcare delivery systems from end to end. Of course, at the present moment, everyone’s focus is (and rightly should be) on ensuring hospitals and healthcare workers have the appropriate equipment and protective gear they need to stay safe and adequately treat patients. That said, there are other IT considerations that should be taken into
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Intermountain Deploys COVID-19 Screener and Emergency Response Solution
What You Should Know:
GYANT announced that Intermountain Healthcare is leveraging
its COVID-19 Screener and Emergency Response Assistant to support patients
during this frightening and uncertain time.
GYANT’s COVID-19 assistant is allowing Intermountain
Healthcare to screen patients for symptoms and risk factors, as many people
aren’t sure if they should be tested for the COVID-19 virus.
Based on the patients’ responses, the assistant directs patients
to the
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Examining a Hospital Ransomware Outbreak
Friendly security can save lives – and that’s not just a provocative phrase to get your attention. It’s actually true.
Hospitals are quickly becoming one of the hackers’ favorite ransomware targets. The steady stream of media reports announcing the latest healthcare facilities that were attacked indicates an end to this targeting is not likely around the corner – and that’s only based on the publicized cases.
Now we have new research showing us that at hospitals impacted by a data breach,
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Addressing Loneliness and Social Isolation in the Medicare Population
In recent years, the healthcare industry's understanding of social determinants of health (SDoH) and their impact on patient outcomes has grown dramatically. Researchers and practitioners now recognize that social isolation and loneliness fall under the SDOH umbrella. In response, many payers and providers are exploring initiatives to address social isolation among members and patients.
The health effects of social isolation and loneliness are costly and harmful. According to Health
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5 Common Types of COVID-19 Grey Market Scams for Hospitals to Avoid
What You Should Know:
- Scammers may be trafficking counterfeit or faulty protective equipment (PPE) during COVID-19 in what is now known as the “grey market.”
- Premier outlines five common types of COVID-19 grey market scams for hospitals to avoid and key best practices to avoid them as hospital brace for the surge in COVID-19 patients.
Healthcare providers are working around the clock to safely
care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic,
and the last thing they need to
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Philips, U.S. Government Partner to Ramp-Up Ventilator Production to Combat COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know:
Philips and the U.S. government collaborate on ramping up ventilator production to combat COVID-19 pandemic with plans to double the production by May 2020.
In the first three months of this year, Philips already delivered several thousand ventilators to U.S. hospitals.
As a result of its production ramp-up, Philips was able to deliver an additional batch of ventilators to one of New York’s hospitals, to help provide immediate relief to the surge of COVID-19
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COVID-19 Forecast Dashboard Predicts Peak Hospital Admissions by County Level
What You Should Know:
- Today, Hospital IQ launched the COVID-19 Regional Forecast Dashboard, a free tool to help hospitals plan for the upcoming surge of COVID-19 patients.
- The Dashboard provides visibility to the county-level resource needs based on precise predictions of peak hospital admissions, bed capacity, and ventilators.
- The COVID-19 Regional Forecast Dashboard automatically aggregates data from the IHME COVID-19 model, as well as other trusted sources (COVID
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HCA, Google Cloud Partner to Launch COVID-19 Open Data Platform for Hospitals
What You Should Know:
- HCA Healthcare announces a partnership with Google Cloud and SADA on new COVID-19 open data platform named the COVID-19 National Response Portal to help communities respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The COVID-19 National Response Portal will help accelerate analysis and response by aggregating data on ICU bed and ventilator utilization, testing results, and total number of patient visits to America’s hospital systems.
Nashville, TN-based HCA
Healthcare,
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