Healthcare can be a dangerous industry. Danger may not be what one immediately associates with places of healing and medicine, but consider everything that healthcare workers go through every day. It’s not uncommon for them to find themselves walking into the rooms of patients who are experiencing mental distress or interacting with aggressive visitors searching for an outlet for their emotions.
According to OSHA, the majority of workplace assaults happen to healthcare workers, while
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athenahealth Launches COVID-19 Dashboards Tracking Lab Test Orders & High-Risk Patients
What You Should Know:
- athenahealth launches two real-time COVID-19 dashboards for the healthcare community that enable users to track and predict which hospitals may need more support based on the number of tests being performed and the number of people at risk of developing severe illness from COVID-19.
- athenahealth’s COVID-19 high-risk populations dashboard identifies concentrated areas of high-risk patients, enabling local hospitals and clinicians to prepare for the
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Welkin Health Appoints Dr. Adrian Rawlinson Chief Medical Officer
What You Should Know:
- Wellkin Health appoints former him and hers executive Dr. Adrian Rawlinson as the company’s new Chief Medical Officer.
- In his new role as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Rawlinson will focus on establishing a Clinical Advisory Board and Clinical User Group.
Welkin Health, a San Francisco-based digital health company, announced the appointment of Dr. Adrian Rawlinson to the company as Chief Medical Officer. In his role as Chief Medical Officer, Dr.
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AHA, AVIA Launch Free COVID-19 Digital Response Pulse to Support Members on Front-Line
What You Should Know:
- Today the American Hospital Association (AHA) and AVIA, a digital transformation partner for healthcare organizations across the country, announced the launch of the COVID-19 Digital Response Pulse.
- This online tool, free to AHA members, will enable 5,000 hospitals across the country to determine the types of digital tools they need immediately to confront COVID-19 clinically and operationally and provide guidance on how they can scale the new solutions they
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Shortage of N95 Masks Top Concern for Hospitals with COVID-19 Patients
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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