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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COVID-19: Is Your Hospital’s Supply Chain Ready for Coronavirus?
Chances are good the face mask you’re wearing or have on hand (just in case) was made outside the United States, maybe in China.
In calmer times, that wouldn’t matter much. But when Chinese officials are trying to stem a global pandemic that started in a Chinese city, how likely is it that the country will continue to export face masks at the same rate?
This isn’t a hypothetical. With the spread of COVID-19, aka, coronavirus, we know the answer is not very, and that it impacts a great deal
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FCC Launches Hospital Robocall Advisory Panel to Combat Robocalls Targeting Hospitals
What You Should Know:
- The Federal Communications Commission (“Commission”) announces the formation of a new federal advisory committee, the Hospital Robocall Protection Group (“Group”).
- The FCC is seeking nominations for the Hospital Robocall Protection Group to establish best practices combat unlawful robocalls made to hospitals using unlawful robocall mitigation techniques.
The Federal Communications
Commission today solicited nominations for the Hospital
Robocall Protection
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Philips Ramps Up Production of Critical Health Tech Products in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know:
- The most needed products are patient vital signs monitors and portable ventilators and medical consumables for non-invasive and invasive ventilation to treat a broad range of respiratory conditions.
- Philips’ efforts to increase the production include hiring additional manufacturing employees and shifting current employees to support increased demand immediately
Royal Philips announced
that it is increasing the production of
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New COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Map Uses Social Determinants of Health to Identify Populations At Greater Risk
What You Should Know:
- Jvion Launches COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Map to identify the social determinants of health (SDOH) that put populations at greater risk, informing community planning and resource allocation to proactively mitigate the risk to vulnerable populations.
- The Community Vulnerability Map allows users to search and drill down into communities to view populations most vulnerable for severe outcomes if infected with a COVID-like virus and the socioeconomic
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Amazon, Epic, Mayo Clinic, Intermountain, Others Form COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition
What You Should Know:
The COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition is a
collaborative private-industry response to the novel coronavirus.
Its mission is to save lives by providing real-time
learning to preserve healthcare delivery and protect U.S. populations.
Coalition partners include Arcadia.io, athenahealth, Buoy
Health, the CommonWell Health Alliance, Epic, HCA Healthcare, Intermountain
Healthcare, LabCorp, Leavitt Partners, MassChallenge, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft,
MITRE, Rush
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3 Ways to Build a Back-to-Basics Approach to Revenue Cycle Management
Sixty-nine percent of healthcare revenue cycle leaders say they will put more money toward technologies that boost revenue integrity, eliminate human error and unlock greater efficiency in the year ahead, an HFMA/Navigant analysis found. But for many organizations, the biggest untapped opportunity to improve performance comes down to a single word: data.
For all the buzz at about the ways in which digital innovation and automation could transform revenue cycle management, healthcare
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TransformativeMed Offers Free EHR-Integrated COVID-19 Tracking and Workflow Solution to Seattle-Based Hospitals
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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