Over the past decade, the move toward automated hygiene, cleaning, and sanitation solutions has steadily accelerated and its effective implementation has positively impacted organizations who quickly recognized its potential value. Enhanced productivity, increased worker safety, an opportunity to repurpose labor, and improved water savings are just a few of the reasons why a growing chorus of organizations embraced the automation revolution. COVID-19 has served as a reminder that
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Walgreens Rolls Out Mobile Clinics to Bring COVID-19 Vaccines to Underserved Communities in Chicago
What You Should Know: - Walgreens will activate multiple mobile clinics in Chicago. The traveling mobile clinics will focus on bringing COVID-19 vaccines directly to underserved communities and those with barriers to accessing the vaccine. Over the next two months, additional mobile clinics will make stops in a number of locations across the country. - Individuals will be able to walk up to a mobile clinic and receive a vaccination at that time from a Walgreens pharmacy team member.
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DoD, Duke, John Hopkins, HJF, physIQ Launch 18-Month COVID-19 Clinical Trial Study
What You Should Know: - Today, PhysIQ Inc. announced its partnership with Johns Hopkins University, Duke University and The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (HJF), to support a clinical trial to evaluate products for early treatment and post-exposure treatment of COVID-19. The 18-month study will assess disease progression and provide early indication of infection. This DOD-funded initiative will assess the role of continuous biosensor
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35% of Americans Would Prefer A Chip to a Vaccine Passport
What We Should Know: - A 2021 Vaccine Passport Privacy Study of 1,000 American adults from NordVPN found that two-thirds of Americans (66%) would get a vaccine passport if it were required to travel, and even though the US may not require vaccine passports, 62% would still get one if it's required to visit other countries. - Conducted by Propeller Insights, the survey reveals 40% expressed concerns it won’t be universal and another 38% are concerned they could be stolen or hacked. -
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CVS Health Launches Employer-Based COVID-19 Vaccination Program
What You Should Know: Today, CVS Health announced it recently began administering COVID-19 vaccines at employer-based vaccination clinics through Return Ready, the company’s comprehensive COVID-19 solution that helps employers return and maintain healthy workforces. - With vaccine hesitancy on the rise, federal and state governments are looking to partners, like employers and CVS Health, to help by making vaccines more convenient to access and enhancing public education
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Why the Digital Front Door is Critical to the Healthcare Revenue Cycle
The COVID-19 crisis has upended many of our traditional business procedures and processes. However, because digital transformations were well underway before the pandemic, the shift to remote work and contactless consumer self-service was swift. In healthcare, digital strategies that were expected to take 10 years to accomplish may now be compressed into three. That acceleration is especially evident with the “digital front door” – a strategy for engaging patients at every major touchpoint of
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Most Providers are Unprepared for The Surge of Post-Pandemic Referrals, Survey Finds
What You Should Know: - The healthcare industry is bracing for an unprecedented wave of provider referrals that formed as thousands of procedures were canceled or delayed due to COVID-19, according to new research conducted by Innovaccer - . Despite rising concerns, few healthcare organizations are adequately prepared. Innovaccer’s recent survey reveals that more than half of healthcare executives (53%) are concerned about this coming wave of referrals, but less than half of respondents
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Innovation, Interoperability Accelerated Healthcare Digital Transformation in 2020
What You Should Know: - In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the digital transformation of healthcare accelerated in 2020 with increased adoption of interoperable tools to support innovations in care management, price transparency and specialty medications, according to the Surescripts 2020 National Progress Report. - The data, which represents 98% of the U.S. population, reveals how the digital transformation of healthcare was expedited over the
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Google Cloud Expands Intelligent Vaccine Impact Solution to Support Vaccine Equity
What You Should Know: - Google Cloud today launched an expanded virtual agent as part of its Intelligent Vaccine Impact solution (IVIs). People will be able to schedule vaccine appointments and ask common questions through a virtual agent, Contact Center AI. - Contact Center AI (CCAI), one core component of the Intelligent Vaccine Impact solution, scales call center human operations with intelligent virtual agents that understand, interact and can talk with people 24/7 in real-time,
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What Will It Take for Hospitals to Survive the Pandemic?
On New Years Eve, just as the Covid-19 outbreak in Los Angeles was at its worst, all 451 of Olympia Medical Center’s exhausted employees learned they would soon lose their jobs. After 74 years, the hospital closed for good on March 31st, leaving residents of the surrounding community — poor and mostly people of color — without a place to see a doctor. And it isn’t the only hospital closing. At least 47 hospitals have closed or filed for bankruptcy in the last year, and there will
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