David Talby, CTO, John Snow Labs
Each year, Adverse Drug Events (ADE) account for nearly 700,000 emergency department visits and 100,000 hospitalizations in the US alone. Nearly 5 percent of hospitalized patients experience an ADE, making them one of the most common types of inpatient errors. What’s more, many of these instances are hard to discover because they are never reported. In fact, the median under-reporting rate in one meta-analysis of 37 studies was 94 percent. This is
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COVID-19: How Can Payers Prepare for Mandates and Support Pandemic Relief Efforts
Elizabeth Bierbower, Former President of Humana's Group & Specialty Division
Healthcare can achieve optimum efficiency when patients are at the center of care. When patients have the necessary information to navigate their care journey, they will choose the path to high-quality care at the lowest costs. Cost-sharing and insurance premiums are rising consistently since the last decade for employer plans, which covers nearly half of the country’s population. Plan members are shouldering a
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Hospital Sustainability Demands that Revenue Integrity Move Front and Center
Vasilios Nassiopoulos, VP of Platform Strategy and Innovation, Hayes
Razor-thin operational margins coupled with substantial and ongoing losses related to COVID-19 are culminating in a perfect storm of bottom-line issues for U.S. hospitals and health systems. A study commissioned by the American Hospital Association (AHA) found that the median hospital margin overall was just 3.5% pre-pandemic, and projected margins will stay in the red for at least half of the nation’s hospitals
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FDA Authorizes First At-Home COVID-19 Test, Results in 30 Mins or Less
What You Should Know:
- FDA approves emergency use authorization (EUA) for Lucira
Health’s all-in-one-test kit for COVID-19 self-testing at home.
- The streamlined Lucira COVID-19 All-In-One Test Kit,
which fits in the palm of a hand, extracts genetic material from the virus and
amplifies it. This process takes up to 30 minutes, but a positive test result
can be generated in as few as 11 minutes.
On late Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use
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White House Coronavrius Task Force Doubles Down on Rapid Testing Strategy
What You Should Know:
- White house coronavirus task force doubles down on rapid testing strategy to fight the coronavirus as some states say they don’t have the supplies to comply with the federal government’s advice.
- This article was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative news organization based in Washington, D.C.
The White House coronavirus task force is doubling down on part of its strategy for halting the spread of the virus:
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AstraZeneca, CCT Partner to Conduct COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trials in Arizona
What You Should Know:
- AstraZeneca and CCT announce a partnership to conduct
COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials in Arizona with 1,500 participants.
CCT Research (CCT), a leader in community-based, embedded clinical research, today announced its partnership with AstraZeneca to advance COVID-19 research. Together with local healthcare providers, CCT will facilitate clinical trials for the
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AMA Unveils 2 Vaccine-Specific CPT Codes for Coronavirus Immunizations
What You Should Know:
- The American Medical Association (AMA) published an
update to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set that includes new
vaccine-specific codes to report immunizations for the novel coronavirus
(SARS-CoV-2).
- The new Category I CPT codes and long descriptors for the vaccine products 91300 and 91301 for better tracking, reporting, and analysis that supports data-driven planning and allocation.
The American Medical Association (AMA) today published
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Mount Sinai Develop Machine Learning Models to Predict Critical Illness and Mortality in COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- Mount Sinai researchers have developed machine learning models that predict the
likelihood of critical events and mortality in COVID-19 patients within
clinically relevant time windows.
- The new machine learning models were outlined in a recent study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research—could aid clinical practitioners at Mount Sinai and across the world in the care and
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Mobile Point-of-Care Ultrasound Is Now A Frontline Warrior in Pandemic
Diku Mandavia, M.D., SVP, Chief Medical Officer at FUJIFILM Sonosite
Health authorities need to prioritize delivery and the repurposing of mobile point-of-care ultrasound machines which have proven to be reliable, affordable, and effective in saving the lives of coronavirus patients.
Most Americans are familiar with ultrasound technology from the scans done to check on the status of the fetus during pregnancy.
But far fewer are aware of how valuable mobile versions of these
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Cleveland Clinic Develop COVID-19 Risk Prediction Model through Epic MyChart
What You Should Know:
- Cleveland Clinic develops the COVID-19 risk prediction model through Epic MyChart that is now available to health systems around the world.
- Healthcare organizations can present the clinically
validated model to patients in MyChart to assess their risk of having COVID-19.
Cleveland Clinic researchers have developed a COVID-19 risk prediction model that uses information from the patient’s comprehensive health records combined with patient-centered
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