Just a few weeks ago, the mood among technologists in the Coronavirus pandemic remained cautiously optimistic about reopening society with the help of testing data, contact tracing apps, and other IT-enabled resources. But the recent spike in illness – 1.9 million new US cases in July, more than double any other month – is a sobering reboot on a crisis we now understand needs far more IT and data coordination than previously recognized.
The emerging consensus among epidemiologists is that
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After COVID-19, Healthcare’s Next Big Challenge: Reforming Surgery
Nearly six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, many hard-hit healthcare systems have begun resuming elective surgeries and redeploying surgeons, residents, and fellows back to their home departments after enlisting them in COVID wards and ICUs.
These practitioners are returning physically exhausted and emotionally strained from the harrowing experience of serving on the front lines of the COVID response. Meanwhile, they have also seen their training
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Philips Launches Future Health Index Exploring COVID-19 Perceptions Among Younger Doctors
What You Should Know:
- Philips releases new Future Health Index report that
explores how the COVID-19 pandemic is driving changes in how younger doctors
view their profession.
- The new research captures feedback from 500 doctors under the age of 40 in five countries: the United States of America, China, Singapore, France, and Germany.
Royal Philips, today
announced the release of the Future Health
Index Insights: COVID-19 and younger healthcare professionals report. The
main
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How the Simple Telehealth Visit Will Revolutionize Care Delivery and Disease Management
The impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare industry’s ability to innovate has been stunning. We have seen FDA emergency authorizations and relaxed regulatory guidelines enable the development of radical new ventilator ideas, accelerated timelines for vaccine development, and an extraordinary transition to telehealth services. Many of these actions were a response to the exposure of weak spots in our healthcare system, but even as those weaknesses have been shored up (in large part due to public
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Uniphore CEO Talks Call Centers & Why Contact Tracing is Failing
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, all call centers have now been asked to play a vital role, acting as the hubs for contact tracing to help track and contain the spread of the virus. It’s estimated that the U.S. needs to employ 100,000 to 300,000 contact tracers for this to be an effective program. However, call center representatives that have a healthcare background and are trained to handle these sensitive calls are in short supply, so states have had to get “creative about finding the workforce.”
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Maximizing Telehealth Success: How to Optimize Operations & Revenue Cycle Management
In COVID-19’s wake, providers’ financial recovery will be crucial yet daunting. U.S. hospitals and health systems stand to collectively lose $36.6 billion between March and June 2020 alone. Physician practices also face serious financial challenges as they recoup revenues that declined up to 55 percent and patient volume that decreased 60 percent.
Amid these hardships, telehealth has emerged as a widely accepted vehicle for care delivery – providing a way for healthcare organizations to
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KPMG Launches COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Donor Matching Solution
What You Should Know:
- KPMG offers its data & analytics capabilities to
address emerging challenges tied to matching recovered patients with those in
clinical trials to receive convalescent plasma.
- KPMG’s capabilities can make the plasma donation process easier
and more efficient by automating the complex tasks and logistics associated
with the data collection, qualification and matching process by performing
statistical analytics, and using artificial intelligence (AI),
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Castor Raises $12M to Advance COVID-19 Research Through Clinical Trial and Data Automation
What You Should Know:
- Castor raises $12M in Series A funding to further their
support for COVID-19 research through clinical trial and data automation.
- With 4,000 live studies and 2,000,000 enrolled patients
across 90 countries, Castor will use the funding to further invest in enabling
patient-centric, data-powered clinical trials.
Castor, a Hoboken,
New Jersey startup using automation and data reuse to simplify the entire
clinical trial process, announced $12M in Series A
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CurieAI Launches AI-Driven Platform for COVID-19 Respiratory Monitoring and Management
What You Should Know:
- SRI Ventures spin-off CurieAI announces the launch of
its AI-driven COVID-19 case management platform
- The Curie solution has been deployed to monitor
inpatients and outpatients at San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation (SCAHC).
CurieAI, a Menlo
Park, CA-based healthcare startup spun-off from SRI
Ventures, the corporate venture arm of SRI International, today announced
the release of CurieAI’s first-of-its-kind AI-driven
platform specifically designed for
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To Combat COVID-19, Philips Launches Rapid Equipment Deployment Kits
What You Should Know:
- Philips today announced the launch of its Rapid
Equipment Deployment Kits, which provide doctors with critical care patient
monitoring solutions they can quickly implement in the ICU. The Rapid Equipment
Deployment Kits use advanced patient monitoring technology to enable care teams
to swiftly scale up critical care capabilities within just a few hours, and
help hospitals meet on-demand access during these pressing times of COVID-19.
- Arriving at hospitals
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